Last words before execution

    • [PDF File]Last Words, Last Meals, and Last Stands: Agency and ...

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      Last Words, Last Meals, and Last Stands: Agency and Individuality in the Modern Execution Process Daniel LaChance Despite the historical transformation of executions in the United States into cloistered, bureaucratic affairs, two past practices have persisted in modern executions: the opportunities for the condemned to request a special last ...


    • Dining on Death row: last meals and the crutch of ritual - JSTOR

      last meal in texas is served at 4 p.m., two hours before execution, 21 percent of the inmates ordered breakfast, mostly eggs, sausage (occasionally bacon, steak, or pork chops) and hash browns, sometimes with biscuits and gravy; the exception was one


    • [PDF File]LOUIS XVI’S LAST WORDS – REDISCOVERED ... - Christie's

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      On 21 June 1791 Louis attempted to flee Paris for the Austrian Empire (some accounts claim that he was captured after trying to make a purchase in a shop, the clerk recognizing the King from his image on the coinage). He was returned to Paris and placed under informal house-arrest before being officially arrested in August 1792.


    • [PDF File]Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken ... - CORE

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      analyzed positivity in the final words spoken immediately before execution by 407 death row inmates in Texas. By using computerized quantitative text analysis as an objective measure of emotional language use, our results showed that the final words contained a significantly higher proportion of positive than negative emotion words. This


    • Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions

      execution during this era, deportment seemed to matter more than words. Sympathetic accounts of late medieval executions—those rituals judged as proper deaths—stressed the ―contrition and piety‖ of the condemned rather than their final words (Royer . Rhetoric, Ritual, and Redemption. 45-46).


    • [PDF File]DEAD MEN TALKING: CONTENT ANALYSIS OF PRISONERS’ LAST WORDS,

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      lack the capacity of speech will not at some point utter what will be our last words, whether they were spoken knowing, or not, that death was but a breath away. In a broader sense, life itself is comprised of many last words: the last words we share before going to sleep, (the last words before) a voyage


    • [PDF File]Ned Kelly’s Last Words: “Ah, Well, I Suppose”

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      Abstract:It has long been widely, even admiringly, held that Ned Kelly’s last words before execution were “Such is life”. This is a key part of a prevalent Kelly mythology that has been subject to little serious critique. Yet the attribution of the phrase ‘Such is life’ to Kelly is pure fiction.


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