Charles Peace
In the morning before his execution, Peace ate his last meal asking for a hearty breakfast of salty bacon and eggs. He went to the gallows with the prison chaplain who read aloud passages describing hell. The criminal said, “Even if England were covered with broken glass from coast to coast, I would walk over it … just to save a soul from the eternal hell like that!” The criminal reportedly cried.
Salty Bacon and Eggs
Ricky Ray Rector
Ricky Ray Provost tricked a police officer he had known since childhood into believing he was going to give up when he shot a man at a restaurant in 1981. He shot and killed the cop instead, and turned the gun to his head. The Rector survived the attempted suicide but lobotomized himself successfully. A judge, however, deemed him fit for trial, sentencing him to death on two counts of murder.
Ricky Ray Rector