Microfiction Madness: Last Words
New Prompt:
As suggested by Stephen Berwaldt, here’s the next prompt. Write a 100 word or less story or poem based on the following: A criminal is about to be executed (for what crime and by what method is up to you). What are his/her last words before the end? You cannot use the words “I’m sorry” or “I apologize”.
Last Words
I’m not a good man. My crimes are on record, I won’t recount them here.
I’ve waited the last 12 years on death row. Isolated. Alone.
You might think that’s a just reward, and while I’d love to debate that, I don’t have the time. In three hours and fifteen minutes I’ll meet my end.
Finally.
Sleep well when I’m gone, but a word of warning: I’m not the problem. You’re as violent as I am: your movies, television, song lyrics. The way you drive your cars. See the problem?
My last words? Don’t weep for me; weep for yourselves.
= = = =
There is no humane execution. End the death penalty worldwide.
“Better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.” Sir William Blackstone
Michael B. Fishman
Michaelsfishbowl 
Yes. We all are. Murdering each other seems to be hard wired into humans, no matter what the various laws say.
Eye for an eye leaves us all blind.
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