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"The
train now arriving on platform one is on fire. Passengers are advised
not to board this train." Tannoy
operator at Bournemouth Station
LAST
WORDS
"Well,
gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel."
Executed in electric chair in New York.
~~ George Appel, d. 1928
"Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way."
Executed by firing squad.
~~ Erskine Childers, Irish patriot,
d. November 24, 1922
"You sons of bitches. Give my love to Mother."
Executed in electric chair.
~~ Francis "Two Gun"
Crowley, d. 1931
"They butchered me back there, I was in a lot of pain. They
cut me in the groin; they cut me in the leg. I was bleeding profusely.
This is not an execution, it is murder."
Executed by injection, Florida
~~ Bennie Demps, d. June 8, 2000
( It took execution technicians 33
minutes to find suitable veins for the execution. The executioners had
no unusual problems finding one vein, but because Florida protocol
requires a second alternate intravenous drip, they continued to work
to insert another needle, finally abandoning the effort after their
prolonged failures.)
"Remember, the death penalty is murder."
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Robert Drew, d. August 2, 1994
"I love
you.
Spoken to the executioner."
Executed by injection, New York.
~~ Sean Flannagan, d. June 23, 1989
"How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French
fries."
Executed in electric chair in Oklahoma.
~~ James French, d. 1966
"I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of
me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass."
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Johnny Frank Garrett, Sr., d.
February 11, 1992
"I'd rather be fishing."
Executed in electric chair, Louisiana.
~~ Jimmy Glass, d. June 12, 1987
"I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the
press to know this."
Executed by injection, Oklahoma.
~~ Thomas J. Grasso, d. March 20,
1995
" You can
be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim
Reaper."
Executed in California's gas chamber.
~~ Robert Alton Harris, d. April 21,
1992
"Such is Life"
Executed by hanging.
~~ Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger,
d. 1880
" Shoot me
in the chest!"
To his executioners.
~~Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator,
d.1945
"Shoot straight you bastards and don't make a mess of
it!"
Executed by firing squad.
~~ Harry Harbord "Breaker"
Morant, Australian poet & national hero, d. 1902
"Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men
while you're screwing around."
Executed by hanging Leavenworth, Kansas.
~~ Carl Panzram, d. September 5, 1930
"See in what peace a Christian can die."
~~ Joseph Addison, writer, d. June
17, 1719
"Is it not meningitis?"
~~ Louisa M. Alcott, writer, d. 1888
" How were the
receipts today at Madison Square Garden?"
~~ P. T. Barnum, entrepreneur, d.
1891
"I can't sleep."
~~ James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937
"Now comes
the mystery."
~~ Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d.
March 8, 1887
"Friends applaud, the comedy is finished."
~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d.
March 26, 1827
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January
14, 1957
"I
am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is
correct."
~~ Dominique Bouhours, French
grammarian, d. 1702
"I
am still alive!"
Stabbed to death by his own guards - (as reported by Roman
historian Tacitus)
~~ Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor,
d.41 AD
"Ay Jesus."
~~ Charles V, King of France, d. 1380
"I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time."
~~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer,
d. July 1, 1904
"I'm bored
with it all."
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d.
January 24, 1965
"This time it will be a long one."
~~ Georges Clemenceau, French
premier, d. 1929
"I have tried so hard to do the right."
~~ Grover Cleveland, US President, d.
1908
"That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted."
~~ Lou Costello, comedian, d. March
3, 1959
"Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me."
To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.
~~ Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10,
1977
"I've never felt better."
~~ Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d.
December 12, 1939
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
~~ Richard Feynman, physicist, d.
1988
"I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute
of it."
~~ Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14,
1959
"A dying man can do nothing easy."
~~ Benjamin Franklin, statesman, d.
April 17, 1790
" I know you have
come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man."
Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier.
~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara,
d. October 9, 1967
"God
will pardon me, that's his line of work."
~~ Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February
15, 1856
"Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the
dark."
~~ O. Henry (William Sidney Porter),
writer, d. June 4, 1910
" Is it the
Fourth?"
~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d.
July 4, 1826
"Why not? Yeah."
~~ Timothy Leary, d. May 31, 1996
"Too
late for fruit, too soon for flowers."
~~ Walter De La Mare, writer, d. 1956
"Let's cool it brothers . . ."
Spoken to his assassins, 3 men who shot him 16 times.
~~ Malcolm X, Black leader, d. 1966
"Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said
enough."
To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so
she could write them down for posterity.
~~ Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883
"It's all been very interesting."
~~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer,
d. 1762
"I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it
- died in a hotel room."
~~ Eugene O'Neill, writer, d.
November 27, 1953
"Good-bye . . . why am I hemorrhaging?"
~~ Boris Pasternak, writer, d. 1959
"I have a terrific headache."
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US
President, d. 1945
"Put out the light."
~~ Theodore Roosevelt, US President,
d. 1919
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . ."
Killed in battle during US Civil War.
~~ General John Sedgwick, Union
Commander, d. 1864
"I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the
record . . ."
~~ Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953
"Moose . . . Indian . . ."
~~ Henry David Thoreau, writer, d.
May 6, 1862
"God bless... God damn."
~~ James Thurber, humorist, d. 1961
" Don't let it end
like this. Tell them I said something."
~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican
revolutionary, d. 1923
"Go away. I'm all right."
~~ H. G. Wells, novelist, d. 1946
"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November
30, 1900
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