Condemned killer dies without delivering promised joke

[rack'm]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Condemned prisoner Patrick Knight was executed Tuesday evening for the deaths of an Amarillo-area couple without delivering on a promise to tell a joke in his final statement.

Patrick Knight has been soliciting jokes in the mail and on a Web site, sometimes receiving as many as 20 a day, saying his humor was intended to raise the spirits of other inmates. He said he received as many as 1,300 proposals.

 

[baileydog]

He appartantly said that "death has set me free and thats the biggest joke of all.

 

[Toxick]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Condemned prisoner Patrick Knight was executed Tuesday evening for the deaths of an Amarillo-area couple without delivering on a promise to tell a joke in his final statement.

After they slid a needle full of glass cleaner into his arm, he probably wasn't feeling especially light-hearted.

Me, I'd cut him some slack on his failure to deliver on that particular promise.

 

[Lenny]

How cool that the banner advertisement at the bottom of the page asks "Is the death penalty effective? Is it moral?"

To answer both, the short answer is "Yes"