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[US] B. Price Meals to Die For 400: [last words of John Albert Burks executed 06/14/2000] The Raiders are going all the way, ya’ll.
at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
[US] (ref. to 06/16/1997) B. Price Meals to Die For 71: [murderer’s last words] ‘I am truly sorry for your loss [...] but I didn’t kill anyone [...] I wish you peace and comfort.’ He ended the statement with, ‘Let’s rock and roll’.
at rock and roll, v.
[US] B. Price Meals to Die For 43: The sound of one of the yard bosses shouting to clear the way made all of us in line turn.
at boss, n.2
[US] B. Price Meals to Die For 126: It was the state’s game, and the deck was stacked against Troy Farris. Prosecutors dealt him his cards of fate off the bottom of the deck: aces and eights—the dead man’s hand.
at deal off the bottom of the deck (v.) under deal, v.
[US] B. Price Meals to Die For 125: A blind man could see that Troy Farris was being set up to take the fall.
at take the fall (v.) under fall, n.
[US] in B. Price Meals to Die For 279: [last words of David Lee Herman executed 04/02/1997] ‘To all my friends and family, I love you and I am going home’.
at go home (v.) under home, n.
[US] in B. Price Meals to Die For 397: [last words of Robert Earl Carter executed 05/31/2000].
at go home (v.) under home, n.
[US] B. Price Meals to Die For 253: Behringer wanted to go to the area so he could harass parkers.
at parker, n.2
[US] B. Price Meals to Die For 386: ‘I’ve done wrong, sure, I’ve paid the time’.
at pay, v.
[US] B. Price Meals to Die For 15: I have been the cook who prepares the last meal requests for the condemned who are brought here to the Walls to be executed.
at Walls, the, n.
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