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1. In 2002 Rodrigo Hernandez was scheduled for parole on an assault charge in Michigan. Prior to his release authorities took a sample of Hernandez' DNA to place on a national database. Texas matched it to the 1994 sexual assault and murder of a San Antonio woman. Tried and convicted, in 2012 Hernandez died by lethal injection in the Texas penitentiary at Huntsville. Just before losing consciousness, what were his last words?
2. Anna Pavlova was one of the greatest ballerinas in history. In 1931 Pavlova was diagnosed with pneumonia and told she needed surgery or she would die. The surgery, though, would leave her unable to dance again. Pavlova said life without dance wouldn't be worthwhile and chose not to have the surgery. Just weeks before her 51st birthday Anna Pavlova died after speaking what last words?
3. "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker sat on the federal bench of the Western District of Arkansas from 1875 until 1896. During those years he sentenced 156 men and four women to hang. One of the condemned was Crawford "Cherokee Bill" Goldsby, leader of an outlaw gang that ran amok for two years in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Standing on the gallows in Ft. Smith, Arkansas in 1896, Wild Bill was asked by hangman Campbell Eoff if he had anything to say. What was his reply?
4. May 2, 1863 had been a great day for Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. His corps of the Army of Northern Virginia had crashed into the flank of the Union Army and sent them running. It was growing dark as Jackson led his aides back to camp. A regiment of Confederate infantry thought the horsemen were Union cavalry and opened fire, seriously wounding their commander. Jackson's left arm was amputated but he developed pneumonia and sucumbed on May 10, 1863. Delusional in his last hours, Stonewall shouted orders to his troops but what were his more restful final words?
5. Aileen Wuornos had led a tough life. She never knew her schizophrenic father, who was in prison for rape and attempted murder when she was born. Her mother abandoned Aileen and she was raised by her grandparents. She later accused her grandfather of molesting her. She supported herself by robbery and prostitution, frequently serving time in prison. In 1991 Wuornos was charged in Florida with the murders of seven men. Juries weren't impressed with her story that the men had raped her and she'd shot them in self defense. Given six death sentences, Aileen Wuornos became the 10th woman executed in the US since the Supreme Court hiatus on capital punishment ended in 1976. What were her last words?
6. Kit Carson's real life adventures may actually surpass the folk tales and dime novels that fictionalized his exploits. Carson was a trapper, explorer, guide, Indian fighter, and soldier, fighting in both the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. On his deathbed in 1868 what were Kit Carson's memorable last words?
7. Barbara Graham was a prostitute and petty crook. After time in prison for perjury she found her way to Los Angeles where she fell in with a tough group of criminals. In 1953 she and three accomplices forced their way into the home of an elderly widow, thought to keep large amounts of cash and jewelry. When the woman refused to tell them where her valuables were kept, Barbara pistol whipped her and the accomplices suffocated her. The gang was quickly captured and one member turned state's evidence. Barbara and the other two men were convicted and sentenced to death. On June 3, 1955 Graham became the third woman to die in California's gas chamber. Asked if she had last words, what was her reply?
8. Morgan Earp stood with his older brothers, Wyatt and Virgil, against the Clanton contingent in the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Five months later Morgan was playing billiards when a rifle shot smashed through a window and struck him in the back, severing his spine. Morgan lived briefly and before he passed away he whispered his last words to brother Wyatt. What were they?
9. "I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long live independence!"
Whose last words were these?
10. Humphrey Bogart was arguably the greatest American movie star of all time. He was nominated three times for the Best Actor Oscar, winning in 1951 for "The African Queen". Bogie also enjoyed the movie star lifestyle as a founding member of the Hollywood Rat Pack. In 1956 he was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. Surgery and chemotherapy failed to arrest the disease and Bogart died in January, 1957. Spoken as he lapsed into a coma, what were Bogie's final words?
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