Last words of executed criminals:

• “Mercy! Mercy! Mercy! Don’t hang me! I can’t die! I’m not ready to die! I don’t want to die!” — North Carolina burglar Henry F. Andrews, 1879
• “Where is my little boy? Look at me, my son, and take warning.” — Louisiana murderer Edward Rector, 1884
• “What time is it? I wish you’d hurry up. I want to get to hell in time for dinner.” — Wyoming murderer John Owens, 1886
• “These are for my sister [taking off her eyeglasses]. Please see that she gets them.” — Vermont murderer Mary Mabel Rogers, 1905
• “They can’t kill a smile!” — Montana murderer Harrison Gibson, smiling, 1917
• “I have something of interest to tell –” — California murderer Paul Rowland, cut off by his hanging, 1929
• “Make it snappy.” — California murderer Charles H. Simpson, 1931
• “You might get me a gas mask.” — Arizona murderer Jack Sullivan, 1936
• “So long.” — Utah robber and murderer James Joseph Roedl, 1945
• “Kiss my ass.” — John Wayne Gacy, to a prison guard, 1994
• “Merry Christmas.” — Virginia rapist and murderer Lem Tuggle, 1996

Before his lethal injection in 2007, Arizona murderer Robert Comer said, “Go Raiders.”