The words from 543 Texas death row inmates – including 3 women and 540 men – provide a unique glimpse into the thoughts and emotions in their final moments.

From bizarre food puns to bone-chilling declarations, the world has heard a number of spine-tingling last words from some of the most brutal convicts throughout history.

Texas death row inmate says ‘I’m sorry’ in last words as he’s executed for mother-of-three’s murder - The 54-year-old was the third person to be put to death in Texas this year ...

Death Row Last Words: Texas Executes 10th Inmate in 2012. Texas inmate Jonathan Green: I never killed anyone. By ABC News. September 24, 2012, 12:26 PM.

Texas executed its 500th death row prisoner last week: Kimberly McCarthy, a 52-year-old woman convicted of murder. Resuming capital punishment in December 1982 after an earlier Supreme Court ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, and used his last words to tell his wife he loved her. The ...

Death row inmates in Texas will no longer have their final written words shared with the public following a state Democratic lawmaker’s outrage over prison officials relaying the last statement ...

Texas Will No Longer Share Condemned Inmates' Final Statements. AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas lawmaker whose ire over a death row inmate's expansive final feast in 2011 ended the practice of condemned ...

HOUSTON — After a Texas senator requested that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice stop reciting the last written statements of death row inmates to the public, the TDCJ announced they will ...

Texas death row inmates no longer choose their last meals after Whitmire expressed outrage over the dining request of a second man condemned for Byrd's killing. Lawrence Russell Brewer ordered an ...