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June 26, 2007
At least we can laugh about it
You would think with all the free time he has, Mr. Knight would have enough time to come up with an entire stand-up act:
A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
Patrick Knight, 39, has been soliciting jokes on the Internet and plans to tell one of them before receiving a lethal injection, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said on Monday.
"He says he wants to keep his execution light," she said.
Knight was sentenced to die for the August 1991 murder of his two elderly neighbours in Amarillo, Texas.
Lyons said a friend of Knight's set up a page on the social networking Web site MySpace.com to solicit jokes, and "hundreds" of suggestions have arrived in the mail.
"I'll be enjoying my last days on Earth," Knight wrote on the Web site. "I'm not asking for pen pals, but I'm asking you to spread the word that I am holding a contest. I want people to send me their best jokes, and to keep me and others with (execution) dates laughing."
Sample joke: What's the deal with 9 pm lights out? Don't they know all the best shows are on after 9? Listen, if they're going to shoot me full of chemicals and kill me, I should be allowed to watch a re-run of Home Improvement every now and then. Thanks, I'll be here all week... Uh, I mean, 'til Tuesday!
entry no. 892
Posted at June 26, 2007 02:49 PM