{"id":5105,"date":"2014-09-12T22:47:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T03:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2014-09-12T22:47:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T03:47:02","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-september-12-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5105","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for September 12, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Philosophical\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judging from the various reactions of those present at the execution, the calmest person in the Texas death chamber on the evening of September 23rd, 1998 was former electrician and soon-to-be corpse David Castillo, who was convicted of slashing a 59-year-old liquor store cashier to death. \u00a0While his father and three brothers cursed loudly and pounded on the glass wall separating witnesses from the condemned man, Castillo waited patiently for his death and philosophized on human nature. \u00a0&#8220;There is no man that is free from all evil, nor any man so evil as to be worth nothing,&#8221; the 34-year-old mused while preparing for his demise. \u00a0Although he never accepted responsibility for the death of the middle-aged store clerk and blamed the crime instead on a nameless acquaintance who supposedly fled to Mexico after the murder, Castillo accepted his punishment with a grain of salt &#8211; and a mountain of Mexican food. \u00a0&#8220;There are some things you just can&#8217;t fight,&#8221; he said. \u00a0&#8220;Little people always seem to get squashed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last Meal: \u00a024 tacos, 2 cheeseburgers, 2 whole onions, 5 jalapeno peppers, 6 enchiladas, 6 tostadas, one quart of milk, and one chocolate milkshake.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1559502177\/theasylumeclecti\">Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals From Death Row<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Philosophical\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Judging from the various reactions of those present at the execution, the calmest person in the Texas death chamber on the evening of September 23rd, 1998 was former electrician and soon-to-be corpse David Castillo, who was convicted of slashing a 59-year-old liquor store cashier to death. \u00a0While his father and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5105","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\/5105","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5106,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}