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Goodbye Warden

The last words from executed death row inmates

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Forrest McKinney
@forrestmck · Designer/Photographer
Hey everyone! First of all, big thanks to Ryan Hoover for submitting this to Product Hunt, it's great to see that people find this site intriguing. I'm very new to the world of web design, and initially this was just a personal project I started, largely as an excuse to play around with JSON, but also because I found these quotes to be intriguing, heart bre… See more

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Forrest McKinney
@forrestmck · Designer/Photographer
Hey everyone! First of all, big thanks to Ryan Hoover for submitting this to Product Hunt, it's great to see that people find this site intriguing. I'm very new to the world of web design, and initially this was just a personal project I started, largely as an excuse to play around with JSON, but also because I found these quotes to be intriguing, heart bre… See more
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
These final words are saddening/fascinating/thought-provoking. Some of them choked me up, like this one: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCpZ... According to the word cloud, the most commonly used words were love, know, family, thank, and sorry.
Mitch
@sleumasm · Creator of ineedaresu.me
It's weird reading these. It seems like there are three kinds of people here. Crazy people who have zero regrets for their crimes and are excited to die, those who are still saying they're innocent yet have accepted the fact they they are going to be killed, and those who know what they did was wrong, regret it, and are sad about dying.
Roberto Scaccia
@robertoscaccia · renewable energy. design
@forrestmck reading through these short quotes I find myself lost thinking about the untold that lies in between lines, how dramatic and inhuman it should be for all these people to condense in a few words their last desires, the love for their families and the guilt or regret for what they have/have not done. For some reasons it reminds me The Spoon River A… See more
Shlomo Fellig
@shlomofellig · Founder, Outgrow.me
As a current law student studying criminal law, these really made me shiver.