Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 31, 2011
Today’s Unsavory Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Harry Charles Moore was executed on May 16, 1997 in Oregon by lethal injection. He was convicted of murdering his half-sister and his brother-in-law because he thought they were planning to take his ex-wife and daughter and move to Las Vegas. Moore feared that his daughter, two years old at the time of the murders, would turn to a life of prostitution if exposed to such an unsavory environment. His last meal consisted of two green apples, two red apples, a tray of fresh fruit and two 2-liter bottles of Coca-Cola. A practical joker to the end, just prior to the execution Moore asked the warden if he could borrow the keys to the prison, promising to “bring them right back.” The request was denied. Part of his last words were, “Now I know how Jesus felt before he got smoked.”
Culled from: Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals From Death Row
A couple more tidbits I found on the net: Harry had married two of his nieces before he had this sudden attack of morality. Supposedly his last words while he lay dying were in tribute to his daughter: “I want the last word I say to be Jennifer; j e n n i f e r”.
Was that family some weird Mormon offshoot, or was Harry and his nieces just gross?
I’ll give him credit, if you can call it that, for having a fairly healthy last meal. Most of them pig out on all kinds of greasy stuff (well, I would too) and here his only vice seems to be all that soda.
Jesus says: “Speak for yourself, Harry. Leave me out of it.”
Your last meal is no time to eat like you’re on a low-calorie diet!
But…truth be told, I would so like to have a pomegranate or perhaps a pineapple at my last meal. Not just that…those fruits as part of my (last) complete breakfast.
I think what I’d do was try to beat the executioner by eating myself to death. Fried fish, bacon burned black, Grotto’s (local pizza chain) burger, Mexican food, egg rolls, chili dog, funnel cake, Jamocha shake… But I’d also like some mashed turnips, a big tomato sandwich with mozzarella and basil, coleslaw, blueberry pie, fresh strawberries, fresh peaches and banana nut bread.
God, I sound like a big fat slob.
How the flip did he marry 2 nieces?
*looks up info*
EWWW!!! Jennifer is his daughter by one of his nieces!!!
Some countries in the Middle East arrange marriages between first cousins and its all OK…wonder where ol’Jennifer is now-probably not sitting around having warm and fuzzy thoughts of her family!
Royalty is notorious for marrying cousins. It shows too; several royal families in Europe inbred themselves into extinction.
Harry probably didn’t care for the song “I’m My Own Grandpa.”