Chilling website lets you read final words of death row prisoners before execution
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Type the right thing into your chosen search engine and you can find pretty much anything on the internet, though not all of what you might discover is safe, friendly and wholesome.
Still, there are plenty of people who are specifically looking for the exact opposite of those things when they decide to take an online jaunt along the many strands of the world wide web.
One of the internet's biggest obsessions is the weird world of true crime, though people have been fascinated by criminals and their stories long before anyone even conceived of the idea of 'googling' something.
While many criminals attract a significant level of fascination there's little that true crime aficionados like more than delving into the details of death row.
From last minute reprieves to last meals and final words, the facts and trivia about those convicted of the worst crimes has been a source of fascination for many.
For those who are into this sort of thing, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a site where it collates the information about death row prisoners who have been executed, including their last words.
The site tells you who they were, what crimes they were convicted of, when they were put to death and the often chilling last words they spoke before their execution.
Some prisoners have a few things to say, others ask for forgiveness, a few are unrepentant and go out swearing and cursing everyone around them.
In the case of killer James French, who received a life sentence before intentionally killing a fellow inmate so he could get the electric chair, he supposedly used his final moments to suggest 'French fries' as a headline for the newspapers.
Others just get straight to the point, with one death row inmate saying 'let's do this s**t' before his execution.
A woman who witnessed around 300 executions said the 'worst' last words she ever heard came from Cameron Todd Willingham as he swore at his ex-wife so much that the prison warden went ahead with the execution before he'd finished talking, just to make him shut up.
It may sound pretty strange but this is the internet, there's a plethora of weird and macabre sites which contain all sorts of information to satisfy your curiosity.
In addition to the site with the last words of death row inmates there's another corner of the internet which contains the transcripts of final conversations from plane pilots before crashing.
There's even the final moments in the cockpit from the plane crash into the Hudson River that inspired the Tom Hanks movie Sully, and it turns out the movie stuck pretty close to what actually happened.
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Topics: US News, Weird, Crime, True Crime
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