death row

If you knew you only had moments to live, what would your last words be? Most of us don't know when that time will come, so we can't really prepare for it. Inmates on death row, however, know the fate that awaits them. This is a list of some interesting choices of last words from inmates just before they were executed. Some make no sense, some are a little sad, and some are just plain hilarious. Take Thomas J. Grasso, for instance, who wanted to make sure everyone knew something very important. “I did not get my SpaghettiOs. I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.” ...

We like to think that our criminal-justice system is infallible, but sadly, mistakes do get made. The ultimate miscarriage of justice is when an innocent person goes to the death chamber for a crime he or she didn’t commit. In this list, we’ll share 10 tragic stories about wrongfully executed people who were exonerated after their deaths. Johnny Frank Garrett (1992) If you were going to make up a horrible crime, raping and murdering a 72-year-old nun would probably be one of the worst one you could think of. When cops in Texas brought in 17-year-old Johnny Frank Garrett, he admitted to the crime, but a ...