{"id":2289,"date":"2011-06-22T13:40:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2011-06-22T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:40:47","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-22-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For June 22, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

George “Tiny” Mercer was executed on January 6, 1989 in Missouri by lethal injection. He had been convicted of raping and murdering a waitress. After he and two other men had assaulted the girl repeatedly, Mercer strangled her and beat her on the head while screaming, “Die, you bitch, die!” “I’ve always been just like anybody else,” Tiny Mercer once told a reporter. “I’ve paid my taxes, just like any other citizen of the United States would do. I lived a normal life, just like everybody else did.” Many adjectives were used to describe Mercer during his trial, but “normal” sure as hell wasn’t one of them. Tiny was a long-time biker and the leader of two motorcycle gangs, The Rancid Riders and The Missing Links. (“My mother was a biker,” Mercer claimed. “It’s in my blood.”) The words “love” and “hate” were tattooed across the knuckles of his hands, while the Harley-Davidson logo and the words “Rancid Riders” were emblazoned across his back. He is also reported to have once yanked out some of his own front teeth with a pair of pliers during a motorcycle gang ritual. But years of prison life obviously served to mellow out the once “rancid” killer. He became a born-again Christian and divided his reading time equally between motorcycle magazines and the Bible. The kinder, gentler Mercer even offered the prison warden a burrito left over from his last meal just prior to his execution, proving that even the worst criminals are capable of performing a “tiny” gesture of good will.<\/p>\n

Last Meal: Barbecued beefsteak, barbecued ribs, tacos, burritos, French fries, a tossed salad with oil and vinegar dressing, and a large Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n

Culled from: Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals From Death Row<\/a><\/p>\n

I always roll my eyes whenever the implication is made that a becoming a born-again Christian is somehow equal to becoming a better person. Some of the most vivid Morbid Facts ever were committed in the name of religion, after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Tiny Yet Truly Morbid Fact! George “Tiny” Mercer was executed on January 6, 1989 in Missouri by lethal injection. He had been convicted of raping and murdering a waitress. After he and two other men had assaulted the girl repeatedly, Mercer strangled her and beat her on the head while screaming, “Die, you bitch, […]<\/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-2289","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\/2289","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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}