{"id":2603,"date":"2011-08-31T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2011-08-31T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T19:19:08","slug":"morb083111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2603","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 31, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Unsavory Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harry Charles Moore was executed on May 16, 1997 in Oregon by lethal injection.  He was convicted of murdering his half-sister and his brother-in-law because he thought they were planning to take his ex-wife and daughter and move to Las Vegas.  Moore feared that his daughter, two years old at the time of the murders, would turn to a life of prostitution if exposed to such an unsavory environment.  His last meal consisted of two green apples, two red apples, a tray of fresh fruit and two 2-liter bottles of Coca-Cola.  A practical joker to the end, just prior to the execution Moore asked the warden if he could borrow the keys to the prison, promising to &#8220;bring them right back.&#8221;  The request was denied.  Part of his last words were, &#8220;Now I know how Jesus felt before he got smoked.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1559502177\/theasylumeclecti\">Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals From Death Row<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple more tidbits I found on the net: Harry had married two of his nieces before he had this sudden attack of morality.  Supposedly his last words while he lay dying were in tribute to his daughter: &#8220;I want the last word I say to be Jennifer; j e n n i f e r&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Unsavory Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Harry Charles Moore was executed on May 16, 1997 in Oregon by lethal injection. He was convicted of murdering his half-sister and his brother-in-law because he thought they were planning to take his ex-wife and daughter and move to Las Vegas. Moore feared that his daughter, two years old [&hellip;]<\/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-2603","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\/2603","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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}