Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Great Regulars: Asked if he had a last request

before he was executed by firing squad in Utah in 1960, James Rodgers replied: "Why yes, a ­bulletproof vest!" Asked the same question in the gas chamber in ­Arizona in 1936, Jack Sullivan said: "You might get me a gas mask."

from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: Last Words of the Executed by Robert K Elder

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