Witnessing Death

Concluding my recent series of posts on the subject of the US death sentence and death row inmates ..... I'll ask a question.

Executions By US States Since 1976 (Top Ten)

Did you know that many death sentence states in the USA require people with no connection to the crime to attend each execution that is carried out?

Have You Got A Light Boy?

The stupidity of human beings is hardly a new thing ....

Skyler Beau Whitebull aka Numbskull

.... but some people take it to a new level or depth. Skyler Beau Whitebull, is a North American native indigenous male, who takes the latest award for gross stupidity.

Sailor Beware

'Oh what shall we do with a drunken sailor, what do you do with a drunken sailor, what do we do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning' is a popular children’s ditty, and an even older sea shanty.

Drunken Sailors Have Existed Since Time Immemorial

I have heard several other variants of this part of the song, including the anti-British, American version ....

'What'll we do with a Limejuice skipper? ..... Soak him in oil till he sprouts a flipper.' .... 'Limeys' was the American name for British sailors who ate lemons and limes to stop the scurvy.

Last Word To The Ladies

Recently I posted on death row homilies, aka the last words of some death row prisoners. In response to this, the most prolific commenter on this blog, wondered if women prisoners last words were different. I said I would post some women's last words from death row.

Amelia Dyer ~ "Ogress of Reading"

Amelia Dyer earned her living by taking in orphaned infants from the state for a fee, and then selling them to would be 'parents', a practise which was known as 'baby farming'. But instead, she just killed them, discarding their bodies in the Thames River. Famously she even killed one on her way back by train from the state orphanage. When caught in 1896, Dyer didn't deny the killings, saying to authorities when they arrested her, "You'll know all mine by the tape around their necks." Her last words were "I have nothing to say."

What's Wrong With Targets

The British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been forced to resign.

Falling On Your Sword Has Been A Political
Requirement Since Marcus Brutus Did It.

For those readers from abroad, I had better explain that underneath the Prime Minister, this is one of the great offices of state in the UK (along with Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Foreign Secretary).