{"id":2104,"date":"2011-05-24T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2011-05-24T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:36:59","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-may-24-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For May 24, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Amusing Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watt Espy is American’s foremost historian of executions and here is a summary of his favorite execution stories:<\/p>\n

One man willed himself into a coma and had to be carried to the chair; another strolled in blithely, saying, “I’d ruther be fishin'”; one came in with a cigar and a pink flower in his buttonhole; one man had printed the prison tattoo H-A-R-D L-U-C-K on his knuckles; another handed the electrocutioner a check for his $150 fee, signed “The Devil”; one asked for bicarbonate of soda before entering the gas chamber; one said the soup of his last meal was too hot; one complained from the electric chair, “I sick. I eat too much.” One read verse: “Hang me high\/And stretch me wide\/So the world can see\/How free I died,” or quoted rap: “You can be a king\/or a street-sweeper\/But everyone gotta dance\/with the Grim Reaper”. Some told their executioners, “Step on the gas”; or “I came here to die, not to talk”; or “I am Jesus Christ”; or “Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard”; and a woman warned, “My blood will burn holes in their bodies”.<\/p>\n

Culled from: The Last Face You’ll Ever See: The Culture of Death Row<\/a><\/p>\n

I think the first album released by my band Chemical Entombment will be entitled, “My Blood Will Burn Holes In Their Bodies”.<\/p>\n

Great stuff, isn’t it? As soon as I was granted a death sentence I’d start thinking of what to do at the execution. It really is the perfect last hurrah and you gotta do it right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Amusing Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Watt Espy is American’s foremost historian of executions and here is a summary of his favorite execution stories: One man willed himself into a coma and had to be carried to the chair; another strolled in blithely, saying, “I’d ruther be fishin’”; one came in with a cigar and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}