Famous last words by serial killers

Gacy was executed by lethal injection just after midnight on May 10, When asked if he had any last words, Gacy is said to have snarled these three simple words. Aileen Wuornos, abandoned by her parents at a young age was working as a prostitute and robbing people to support herself by the time she became a teenager. In and , Wuornos shot, killed and robbed at least six men. Arrested and tried in she received a total of six death sentences, earning her the inaccurate label by the press of being the first female American serial killer.

Clearly keeping his sense of humor right until the last moment, this pun was to be the final words of convicted murderer George Appel before he was executed in the electric chair in New York in for the murder of a New York City police officer. After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck?

That would be a pleasure to end all pleasures. He beat, raped, and drank the blood of at least one of his victims. John Spenkelink was a drifter convicted of killing a traveling companion which he claimed was done in self-defense. Incidentally, he was also the first man put to be put to death in Florida after the U.

Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in Graham beat an elderly woman to death when a robbery went bad. Aileen Wuornos February 29, —October 9, was born in Michigan and abandoned by her parents at an early age.

By the time she was in her teens, she was working as a prostitute and robbing people to support herself. In and , Wuornos shot, killed, and robbed at least six men. In January of , after her fingerprints were found on evidence located by police, she was arrested and tried for her crimes. She received a total of six death sentences. Although the title wasn't accurate, Wuornos was dubbed by the press as the first female American serial killer.

In the end, she fired her attorney, dropped all appeals, and asked that her execution take place as soon as possible. Convicted murderer George Appel's final words before being executed in the electric chair in New York in for the murder of a New York City police officer were:. However, depending on which account you read, it was also said that his final statement was:. Convicted murderer Jimmy Glass' final words before being electrocuted on June 12, , in Louisiana, for the robbery and murder of a couple on Christmas Eve, were:.

Jimmy Glass is best known not for being a killer, but for being a petitioner in a Supreme Court case in in which he argued that executions by electrocution violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U. Constitution as "cruel and unusual punishment. Convicted murderer Barbara "Bloody Babs" Graham's final words before being executed in the gas chamber in San Quentin were:. Barbara Graham was a prostitute, drug addict, and a murderess who was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin in along with two accomplices.

Graham beat an elderly woman to death when a robbery went bad. When she was strapped into the gas chamber by Joe Ferretti, the man in charge of her execution, told her, "Now take a deep breath and it won't bother you," to which she responded, "How would you know? After Graham's death, her life story was made into a movie called, "I Want to Live!

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Select personalised ads. Transform this Plot Summary into a Study Guide. Famous Last Words , a young adult paranormal mystery novel by Katie Alender, tells the story of a young girl with a ghost in her house and a best friend who is obsessed with a notorious serial killer stalking Los Angeles.

Receiving generally positive critical reviews upon publication, the book won the Missouri Truman Readers Award.