Condemned prisoner Patrick Knight was executed Tuesday evening for the deaths of an Amarillo-area couple without delivering on a promise to tell a joke in his final statement.
Patrick Knight has been soliciting jokes in the mail and on a Web site, sometimes receiving as many as 20 a day, saying his humor was intended to raise the spirits of other inmates. He said he received as many as 1,300 proposals.
But when the moment came, he said, "I said I was going to tell a joke. Death has set me free. That's the biggest joke. I deserve this." "And the other joke is that I am not Patrick Bryan Knight and y'all can't stop this execution now. Go ahead, I'm finished."
Nine minutes later at 6:21 p.m. CDT, he was pronounced dead.
Knight, who grew up in Slidell, Louisiana, was known in prison as the "Insane Cajun."
Patrick Knight has been soliciting jokes in the mail and on a Web site, sometimes receiving as many as 20 a day, saying his humor was intended to raise the spirits of other inmates. He said he received as many as 1,300 proposals.
But when the moment came, he said, "I said I was going to tell a joke. Death has set me free. That's the biggest joke. I deserve this." "And the other joke is that I am not Patrick Bryan Knight and y'all can't stop this execution now. Go ahead, I'm finished."
Nine minutes later at 6:21 p.m. CDT, he was pronounced dead.
Knight, who grew up in Slidell, Louisiana, was known in prison as the "Insane Cajun."
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