“I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.”
Peter Manuel — July 11, 1958
Body Count: 7-9
“Turn up the radio and I’ll go quietly.”
Aileen Wuornos — October 9, 2002
Body Count: 7
“I’ll be back.”
Kenneth McDuff — November 17, 1998
Body Count: 9-14+
“I am ready to be released. Release me.”
Carroll Cole — December 6, 1985
Body Count: 16
“It’s all right.”
Angel Resendiz — June 27, 2006
Body Count: 14+
“I deserve what I am getting.”
Fritz Haarmann — April 15, 1925
Body Count: 24-27+
“I repent, but I do not fear death.”
John Wayne Gacy — May 10, 1994
Body Count: 33–34
“Kiss my ass.”
Marcel Petiot — May 25, 1946
Body Count: 27+
“Gentlemen, I have one last piece of advice: look away. This will not be pretty to see.”
Peter Kürten — July 2, 1931
Body Count: 9+
“After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be a pleasure to end all pleasures.”
Carl Panzram — September 5, 1930
Body Count: 5–22
“Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill a dozen men while you’re screwing around!”
Timothy McVeigh — June 11, 2001
Body Count: 168
“I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.”
Amelia Dyer — June 10, 1896
Body Count: 200-400+ (6 confirmed)
“I have nothing to say.”
H. H. Holmes — May 7, 1896
Body Count: 9–200 (9 confirmed)
“Take your time. Don’t bungle it.”
James Allen Red Dog — March 4, 1993
Body Count: 5
“I’m going home, babe.”
Steven Timothy Judy — March 9, 1981
Body Count: 4
“This is my doing. Sorry it happened.”
Albert Fish — January 16, 1936
Body Count: 3–9+
“I don’t even know why I’m here.”
John George Haigh — August 10, 1949
Body Count: 6–9
“Now I must leave you.”
Israel Keyes — December 2, 2012
Body Count: 3–8+
“Okay, talk is over, words are placid and weak. Back it with action or it all comes off cheap. Watch close while I work now, feel the electric shock of my touch, open your trembling flower, or your petals I’ll crush.”
Donald Henry Gaskins — September 6, 1991
Body Count: 9
“I’m ready to go.”
Andrei Chikatilo — October 16, 1936
Body Count: 52–56+
“Don’t blow my brains out! The Japanese want to buy them!”
Thomas Grasso — March 20, 1995
Body Count: 2
“I did not get my Spaghetti-O’s. I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.”
Sean Flanagan — June 23, 1989
Body Count: 2
[to the executioner] “I love you.”
Jeffrey Dahmer — November 28, 1994
Body Count: 17
“I don’t care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.”