For most inmates on death row, their final statements are apologies or prayers before
they are executed.
But for the rest of the inmates who are executed, they use their last words as a way to provoke
or scare others before they take their final breath.
How's it going YouTube?
I'm your host Landon Dowlatsingh and today we are going to be hearing some pretty terrifying
last words from prison inmates who were sentenced to death.
If you guys missed part one, click right over here.
So, without further a due, here are the top 10 scary last words from prison inmates - part
2.
Starting off this morbid list in at number 10 we have a burning statement.
Jose Villegas was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, her young son and her mother
13 years ago and he was sentenced to be executed.
He was also convicted for making terroristic threats to kill women, burglary and possessing
inhalants.
His attorneys argued that the stabbings weren't intentional because he was mentally ill.
Keep in mind that that the supreme court prohibits the execution of mentally impaired people
but the supreme court denied their appeals because they said that previous examinations
of Jose Villegas showed no mental impairment and they also argued that his lawyers had
10 years to bring up his mental impairment but they didn't until just days before his
scheduled execution.
So, as the medical technician inserted the lethal drug he said, "It does king of burn.
Goodbye."
He then gasped several times, his breathing started to get quieter and within one minute,
he stopped moving and his pulse stopped.
Up next in at number 9 we have an unusual statement.
Richard Cobb said these last words before he was declared dead, "Wow!
That is great.
That is awesome!
Thank you, warden."
Well I think its safe to say that his final statement was very odd.
It seems like he enjoyed being executed.
The witnesses in the room were left confused and unfulfilled.
It's like he did this on purpose because the didn't want the victim's family to get closure.
Richard Cobb actually spent a decade on death row for murdering a man who he abducted and
later killed during a convenience store robbery.
After the drug entered his system, his head hit the pillow and his neck twisted with his
mouth wide open.
Fifteen minutes later, he was declared dead.
Moving up this list in at number 8 we have Joshua Bishop.
During his final moments alive he said "I feel it."
I don't know about you guys but this statement gives me the chills.
When I was reading inmate's last words, a lot of them actually say that they feel the
drug entering their body and that they can feel that death is near.
There is just something so unsettling about this statement that I can't explain.
On the night of June 24, 1994, he had spent the night drinking and smoking crack with
two other people.
He tried to steal car keys from Leverett Morrison who was sleeping at the time.
But things didn't go according to plan.
Joshua Bishop beat Leverett Morrison to death and dumped his body between two trash cans
and burned his jeep.
He was arrested within 24 hours after the murder and he quickly confessed and immediately
began to show remorse.
However, after the trial he was convicted and sentenced to die by lethal injection.
His lawyers tried to appeal this decision by saying that he is a reformed man who has
turned into a model citizen.
They even submitted written statements by the victim's family saying that they didn't
want to have him executed.
But all of the appeals were denied.
A hellish statement makes it onto our list in at number 7.
Lavinia Fisher said "If you have a message and want to send it to hell, give it to me,
I'll carry it."
Well, I guess she knew exactly where she was headed.
It is argued that she is the first woman serial killer in the united states after she was
arrested and sentenced to death by hanging.
But she never actually killed anyone.
According to the story, Lavinia and he husband ran an inn just outside of Charleston.
When a single person checked in, Lavinia would use her charm to gain their trust.
Once they felt at ease with her, she would give them a cup of tea that was poisoned.
Once the poison entered their body, the person would go to sleep and she would steal their
possessions.
It was actually her husband that did the stabbings.
But as it turns out, she was arrested and hanged in 1820 and it is believed that her
spirit still haunts the old city jail.
Up next in at number 6 we have James Jackson.
Before he was executed he said "See you all on the other side.
Warden, murder me...I am ready to roll.
Time to get this party started."
James Jackson was not a model citizen, that's for sure.
He was a white supremacist who stabbed a 66-year-old black man to death with a sword in New York.
He was quickly charged with second degree murder as a hate crime and when he was arrested,
he told police that he hated black men for at least ten years.
He was motivated by his strong hatred and he
fully intended on killing as many black men as he could.
Well, thankfully he was caught and arrested before he was able to cause any more harm.
Number 5 brings us over to George Harris who made a disturbing last statement.
"Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney."
After he won $500 on a craps game in Kansas, he exchanged his winnings for two machine
guns and then he had another man hold onto them for safe keeping.
But when George Harris came back for his guns later that night, the man told him that he
didn't know where they were so he shot him dead with a revolver.
There are just so many questions left unanswered.
Like, why does one person need two machine guns and who misplaces deadly weapons?
This is all very strange but George Harris was eventually sentenced to death by lethal
injection on September 13, 2000 and apparently, he wasn't happy with his lawyers performance
during the trial.
Steven Woods creeps onto this list in at number 4.
He was sentenced to the death penalty in Texas after a jury convicted him of the capital
murders of several drug dealers even though someone else confessed to the killings.
But Texas has an unusual law that allows a defendant to be put to death for a murder
that someone else committed.
He was given a lethal injection but before he died, he said these final words "You're
not about to witness an execution, you are about to witness a murder.
I am strapped down for something that Marcus Rhodes did."
After his final statement, he took several deep breathes before he stopped moving completely.
Can you imagine being killed for a crime that you didn't directly commit?
Yes, he was present during the murders but he never actually killed anyone.
Do you guys agree with the death penalty or do you think it is a cruel and unusual punishment.
Let me know your thoughts in the comment section.
And now in at number 3 we will be talking about Jonathan Green's final words before
death.
This inmate used his last breath to maintain his innocence of the murder of a 12-year-old
girl.
He was arrested for the abduction, sexual abuse and strangulation of a young girl whose
body was found at his home.
His lawyers made several last-ditch efforts to have his death sentence reversed but none
of them were successful.
Before he was given the lethal injection, the warden asked him if he had any last words.
But he shook his head and replied, no.
But just a few seconds later, he changed his mind and said "I'm an innocent man.
I never killed anyone.
Y'all are killing an innocent man."
I know that these last words are probably said a lot but what if they weren't lying.
Now that we have better resources and more forensic analysis, it is believed that at
least 4.1 percent of death row inmates would have been exonerated but because this DNA
evidence wasn't available to them at the time of their conviction, they were given the death
penalty when they were actually innocent.
We have another chilling statement coming in at our number 2 spot.
Christina Marie Riggs was a single mother to five-year-old Justin and two-year-old Shelby.
On the outside, it looked like they were a beautiful family but Christina Riggs had a
dark secret.
She was miserable and insecure and she complained about having enough money to get by.
That's when on November 4, 1997, she did the unthinkable.
She gave her son and daughter anti-depressants in a cup in order to sedate them and she injected
her son with potassium chloride to put him to sleep.
When that didn't work, she smothered them with a pillow.
After she murdered her two children, she wrote suicide notes before she attempted to overdose
on antidepressants.
However, her suicide attempt failed and she was found guilty and sentenced to death.
Before her execution she said, "There is no way words can express how sorry I am for taking
the lives of my babies.
Now I can be with my babies, as I always intended."
She was executed by lethal injection with potassium chloride, which is the same heart-stopping
drug she attempted to use on her children.
And finally coming into number 1 we have Bennie Demps.
He was sentenced to death by lethal injection for murdering another inmate but before he
was killed, he blamed his executioners of butchering him with a needle.
He said "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."
Apparently the medical technicians cut him several times as they were trying to insert
the IV and because he was just an inmate, they didn't treat him with any dignity or
respect.
Although he was a convicted murderer, I don't think that he
should've been treated this way.
I mean, the man is about to die, I think he has suffered enough.
For his last meal he ordered BBQ chicken and beef, French fries, salad, Spanish rice, cherry
vanilla and butter pecan ice cream.
What would you guys order as your last meal?
Well there you guys have it...