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The condemneds' last words from two Thursday executions

By Douglas A. Berman

Both Texas and Virginia carried out lethal injection executions last night, and the last words from the condemned were notable different.  According to this report from the Texas execution, Carlton Turner was apologetic as the state killed him:"I know I was wrong," Turner, apologizing several times, told his slain mother's brother who watched through a window as the punishment was carried out.  "I accept responsibility as a man. I take this penalty as a man." In contrast, according to this report from the Virginia execution, Kent Jermaine Jackson was defiant as the state killed him:Kent Jermaine Jackson was escorted into a white room in the Greensville Correctional Center just before 9 p.m. Thursday and strapped to a gurney...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 11, 2008 (boomark / email).