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Last words before execution are the final statements made by individuals facing death, often reflecting their thoughts or feelings at that moment. These words can vary widely, from expressions of love to declarations of innocence or peace.

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I just spent some time reading some "last words," some have spoken.  I find them odd.  What were they really thinking?  Did they understand where they were going?

Anyway, one who did understand, was Jesus.  Being omniscient, He knew He was going to be executed, and what did He say?

 Do this in memory of me.

The First Woman Executed in the USA

 President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. Mary Surratt owned a boarding house and tavern bordering the Washington DC/Maryland border.  The Surratt's were Confederate sympathizers and the tavern was a gathering place for Confederate sympathizers.  It was also known as a safe house for Confederate spies.  In fact, Mary's son, John was a Confederate courier.  

John Wilkes Booth, who shot Lincoln stayed at the Surratt boarding house along with other conspirators.  Booth's plan was to assassinate President Lincoln and George Atzerodt was to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. Lewis Powell was to kill the Secretary of State William Seward.  Atzerodt never even attempted to kill the Vice President and Powell failed to kill the Secretary of State, even though he stabbed him many times.

As these perpetrators fled their crimes, they went to Surratt's tavern for supplies and a wagon. When Mary Surratt was questioned, she lied that she knew anything or deliberately gave false misleading information. She was arrested and charged with abetting, aiding, concealing, counseling, and harboring men plotting to kill the president.

She was convicted and hung.

There is controversy over whether or not she actively plotted to kill the president. Surratt was portrayed by actress Virginia Gregg in the 1956 episode "The Mary Surratt Case," telecast as part of the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show.^[223] She was portrayed by Robin Wright in the 2011 film The Conspirator, which was directed by Robert Redford.^[224]

Holding Your Hand When You Die

Not exactly holding your hand, but close.  When prisoners are executed, it is an accepted practice for Domineque Ray was executed without his imam with him. 

the condemned person to be accompanied by his spiritual minister.  However, in Alabama,

Mr. Ray was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and murder of a 15 year old girl.  You might say where was her spiritual comfort.  Indeed!  However, two wrongs do not make a right and Mr. Ray may have repented and needed prayers for his sins before he met God.

"People deserve to be accompanied in death by someone who shares their faith. It is especially important that we respect this right for religious minorities," said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, and Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, in a Feb. 8 statement. They are the chairmen, respectively, of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty and the USCCB's Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development." 

Please read the article in the Pilot.