I wrote at A Funny Way to Face Death about a guy who planned to tell a joke right before they executed him.
He received as many as 1,300 proposals, some 20 a day, that he used to keep his fellow inmates in Huntsville, TX entertained with up until the bitter end, his.
As it turns out, death was no laughing matter for him.
With his voice shaking and nearly in tears, he chose rather to thank God for his friends and ask for help for the men on death row that he thinks is innocent.
His final words - "I said I was going to tell a joke. Death has set me free. That's the biggest joke. I deserve this."
"And the other joke is that I am not Patrick Bryan Knight and y'all can't stop this execution now. Go ahead, I'm finished."
Nine minutes later....he was pronounced
dead.The country sheriff thinks his joke plan was a ploy to call attention to himself, but in the end "it turns out he's not much of a comedian. He's simply an executed cold-blooded killer."
Meanwhile, a terminally ill man with cancer was executed in Oklahoma and Georgia executed its first inmate in two years by lethal injection.
I reckon death is NEVER a laughing matter.
What do you think?
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