Last words of death-row inmate: "Vote for Barack Obama."

[Maddy McCall]

PARCHMAN — Before he died Wednesday evening, death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop apologized to his victim's family, thanked America and urged people to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

"For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet is to vote for Barack Obama because his supporters have been working behind the scenes to end this practice," Bishop said.

Bishop, 34, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:14 p.m. - the second inmate put to death in Mississippi in two months. Earl Wesley Berry, 49, was executed May 21.

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Bishop did not deliver the fatal blows. He became only the eighth person put to death who did not directly kill his victim among the more than 1,100 executed since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 - not including contract killings.

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[cali]

1. tragic. God I hate the fucking DP

as for his comments about voting for Obama, the reich wing will have a hayday with them.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Maybe. Possibly not, though, since it would bring up the whole issue of a RW governor

not listening when Bishop said he changed his mind about wanting the DP.

[scheming daemons]

3. This is not a helpful thing for Obama.

We don't want to trumpet the fact that Obama has the support of convicted murderers.

[Whisp]

5. why do you think it was posted?

[Maddy McCall]

8. I can answer that. Because I've been keeping up with this case for weeks...

as have numerous other Mississippians.

This guy got a LOT of sympathy in the state. If you don't know the facts of the case, quit acting as if you do and passive-aggressively accusing me of posting it to harm Obama.

[Barack_America]

4. Bishop's final words were: "God bless America. It has been great living here. That's all."

And FYI, he didn't murder the victim, they guy that did is serving a life sentence.

AND, the guy has been diagnosed as mentally ill.

This is appalling. No way should an accessory to murder be executed while the actual murderer is spared. No wonder he called for electing Barack. I will think of Mr. Bishop while I cast my vote.

[Whisp]

6. OP says it's 'Vote for Barack Obama'. which is it? I'd open the link...

but my comp can't handle some sites and freezes up

[Barack_America]

7. Final words: Vote for Barack. Final FINAL words: God Bless America.

I think that they were both part of the same "final" statement, which ended with "God Bless America".

ETA: I wasn't trying to call the OP into question. I simply copied and pasted the title of my post directly from the article.

[Maddy McCall]

10. Then maybe you should keep your cakehole shut if you don't even know....

the facts of the story.

[Maddy McCall]

9. No shit, sherlock.

Read my posts in GD on this topic. I've been following this case for weeks.