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A Compilation of Final Words

By Steve Hall

"Last Words," is the title of Charles Simic post at the New York Review of Books blog. Robert K. Elder?s Last Words of the Executed, with a foreword by the late Studs Terkel, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. And:Often more interesting than the final thoughts of some of these men and women are the short descriptions Elder provides of their backgrounds and the crimes they committed. Over the years, a few of them became the basis of novels and films, but there are plenty of others in the book that are just as tantalizing. Most likely, some of the executed were innocent, while others, who were guilty, had complicated and awful lives; one tends to feel sorry for them and wishes to know more about their stories...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 13, 2010 (boomark / email).