Posted on 10/19/2006 7:14:42 AM PDT by 2dogjoe
Ask Goering.
His last chance to beat the system.
I get it. Sounds like something I would do.
"What's the point of commiting suicide if your going to be executed? I don't get it........"
It's a control thing. The day this inmate went to prison he lost all control over his life. In committing suicide, for one brief minute, he regained control.
Either way, a murderer is dead so justice was served.
What do you wanna bet he was going for the old..." I am too injured to execute bit" and he went a bit too far?
"Maybe we can offer incentives for inmates to do it earlier... Maybe a SHARP blade, sleeping pills?"
A gun with one bullet in it the day the person goes on death row. The gun sits in a case in the cell and has a signal that goes back to the guards to alert them that the case has been opened.
The convict stands on a line, opens the case and a bullet flies into his skull. If anything, until the day the convict is executed, he will think of the case.
It's a shame he couldn't have repented and found Jesus.
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What am I supposed to do with all the Cheetos and grape Nehi I was going to serve at my execution party tonight?
It doesn't matter...the scum is gone, and is now roommates with Tookie.
He just nicked himself shaving.
Good riddance.
WTF???? Why?
I'd prefer lethal injection, but I bet slitting your own throat is less painful than the electric chair.
Good pickup - another one for the files.
BTB, forget the red ink. Whether it was steam pressure or exploding
cellulose acetate hasn't been determined, so far as I am aware.
Probably a MythBusters candidate, but I'm going with steam, myself.
On 20 October 1930, William Kogut, an inmate on San Quentin's death row, fashioned ordinary decks of pasteboards into a pipe bomb, which he used to take his own life. Kogut was awaiting execution for the throat-slash murder of Mayme Guthrie, who ran a rooming house (which may have doubled as a gaming house and brothel) in Oroville, California.Kogut removed a hollow steel leg from his cot, tore several packs of playing cards into tiny pieces, and stuffed these bits into the pipe. (At the time, red playing cards were reportedly made using a rather volatile ink.) He plugged one end tightly with a broom handle, and poured water into the other end to soak the torn cards. He then placed this device on top of the kerosene heater next to his bed, laid down, and put his head up against the open end of the pipe.
The heater turned the water into steam, and when the pressure built up to a high enough level, the resulting explosion shot the bits of playing cards out of the pipe with enough force to penetrate Kogut's skull.
Kogut felt he should punish himself for having taken Guthrie's life rather than let the State carry out its mandate. His suicide note, addressed to the warden, read: "Do not blame my death on any one because I fixed everything myself. I never give up as long as I am living and have a chance, but this is the end."
How many millions of legal fees did he waste..
I caught it on Sportscenter! Amazing!
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