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Condemned man's last words: 'Our Father . . .'
Death penalty opponents gather to pray after hearing that Joshua Bishop's appeal had been denied by the Supreme Court outside of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison Thursday evening, March 31, 2016. Ben Gray / bgray@ajc.com
Joshua Bishop nodded an acknowledgment to the men who sent him to prison, mouthed "I love you" to his attorney and then uttered his last words Thursday night.
"Our Father . . ." and his voice trailed off as he slipped into unconsciousness, unable to continue the Lord's Prayer aloud as the poison entered his bloodstream.
At the age of 19, Bishop beat a man to death with a curtain rod. Twenty-two years later, at 41, he was put to death at the Georgia prison in Jackson.
As he lay on the gurney, Bishop apologized "to the people of Baldwin County," where his crimes took place, and to the family of the man he killed.
