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    Do condemned inmates get the last word through written statements? Not anymore in Texas

    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times May 01, 2019 3 minutes

    HOUSTON - Condemned prison inmates in Texas for years could write final statements knowing officials would release their words to the public after they were executed.

    Some inmates sounded remorseful in their statements, others unrepentant.

    But the statement released last week on behalf of inmate John William "Bill" King after he was executed for the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas, while simple, disturbed state

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