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Chilling final words that reveal the darkest corners of the human mind... Join us as we examine the most disturbing interviews with convicted killers before their executions. From claims of innocence to shocking confessions, these death row inmates left us with haunting statements that continue to resonate long after they're gone.
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00:00All of the anger, all of the pain, all of the hatred, that's never going to go away.
00:05It's always going to be there. If they kill me, it's always going to be there, regardless.
00:10Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:11And today, we're looking at some of the most unnerving statements made by homicide offenders on death row.
00:18I'm sorry it happened. My heart aches every day for her and her kids.
00:24Steven LeWayne Nelson.
00:25I just want to say that this will be my last interview, because I have my execution days next Wednesday,
00:34and that people do deserve second chances.
00:38The Oklahoma native received the death sentence in 2012, after being found guilty of murdering a pastor named Clinton Dobson
00:46the year before.
00:47The incident happened at the North Point Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas.
00:51Nelson had reportedly intended to carry out a robbery, but also took Dobson's life, while another victim, 69-year-old
00:59Judy Elliott, suffered a severe head injury.
01:02Nelson claimed he was innocent, and in his final interview before being executed, told News Nation that the judicial system
01:09had failed him by allegedly ignoring evidence.
01:12Furthermore, he insisted on the importance of second chances.
01:16Steven LeWayne Nelson was executed by lethal injection in 2025.
01:21I'm not the boss they say that I am, which I'm not.
01:26Benjamin Ritchie.
01:27Why should I care? I'm a kid. Why should I care?
01:30Because I just always knew I was going to end up in there, because I just had a problem with
01:34the rules, with authority.
01:3531-year-old police officer William Toney reportedly lost his life to a fatal gunshot.
01:40The man found guilty of pulling the trigger was Benjamin Ritchie.
01:44He had stolen a vehicle and was running away from Tony to avoid arrest.
01:48During the pursuit, Ritchie shot the policeman four times.
01:52One bullet hit him in the chest and ended his life.
01:55Years after being sentenced to death in 2002, he spoke to esteemed journalist Trevor McDonald,
02:01expressing his relief over pharmaceutical companies refusing to sell their products for use in the lethal injection,
02:07which he saw as a sign of hope.
02:10I was trying to portray a tough guy in court, so when they gave me the death sentence, I laughed
02:14at him.
02:15And the prosecutor told everybody that's the voice of evil.
02:19Shockingly, he also bragged about violating visitation rules while on death row.
02:23In 2005, at the age of 45, Benjamin Ritchie was executed.
02:29Why did you attack him?
02:30Because he accused me of stealing something from him, right?
02:33I don't steal. When you accuse somebody of stealing something, you've got to face those consequences.
02:37Daniel Lee Lopez.
02:39You know, like my daughter right now is back in my life.
02:42And you know, the more she grows up, the more attached she gets with me, right?
02:45And the more we see each other, the more we bond.
02:47In 2009, during a police chase, this man took the life of police lieutenant Stuart Alexander in Corpus Christi, Texas.
02:56The victim, who was 47 years old at the time, was attempting to prevent Lopez from fleeing by deploying a
03:02tire deflation device at the highway exit.
03:05However, the suspect drove into him with his SUV, resulting in his death.
03:10Lopez was eventually convicted of Alexander's murder and put on death row.
03:15It's not easy because I don't want to leave. I don't want to die.
03:18I want them to move on with their lives and that they know that I love them and it's as
03:24simple as that.
03:24During an appearance on the documentary Life and Death Row, the inmate admitted with unsettling calm that he wanted to
03:32be executed.
03:33He explained that it was the only way for the victim's family to get closure and his own loved ones
03:38to move on.
03:39Lopez was given the lethal injection in 2015.
03:43This isn't easy for you, is it?
03:47No.
03:48Carl Wayne Bunchen
03:50How often do you think about that day?
03:53I think about it every day.
03:56I wish that it hadn't have happened.
04:01Is that called remorse?
04:03He was 78 when he was put to death, making him the oldest death row inmate to be executed in
04:09Texas history.
04:10Carl Wayne Bunchen was convicted of capital murder after he fatally shot police officer James Irby, who had pulled him
04:17over.
04:18He received the death penalty in 1991.
04:21Decades later, as he neared his execution date, he spoke to KHOU, claiming his actions were self-defense.
04:28I don't have nothing against cops.
04:30I want cops to protect me just like they do everybody else.
04:35I did not carry a gun to protect myself against cops.
04:41Though he expressed remorse and acknowledged the suffering faced by the victim's family, he emphasized his own hardships during his
04:48incarceration.
04:49Bunchen passed away in 2022 after the lethal injection was administered to him.
04:55Gloria Rubach with the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement drove from Houston.
05:00I'm here because I oppose every single execution in the state of Texas.
05:04Michael Seltzer
05:06Mike's had plenty of time to think about it.
05:08He first came to death row 34 years ago.
05:11That's more than three decades condemned to imagining his own execution each time a fellow inmate makes their final walk
05:17down the cell block.
05:18In 1975, this man entered a convenience store to carry out an armed robbery and came face-to-face with
05:25Clayton Chandler, a clerk.
05:27Seltzer mercilessly shot him six times, causing his death.
05:31The following year, he was placed on death row, and in 2012, his execution took place.
05:38While he was alive, he spoke to Al Jazeera's Josh Rushing in what is said to be the only interview
05:43he ever gave.
05:45Let's face it, eventually I'm going to get older, I'm going to get weaker, and it's going to be a
05:50little hard to fight these battles, whether they be physical, mental, or whichever.
05:56He recalled a violent childhood and expressed his disapproval of capital punishment, but confessed that he'd rather be put to
06:03death than die of old age in confinement.
06:07He rejected the idea of begging for his life and seemed to have come to terms with his end long
06:12before he was given the lethal injection.
06:14I'm not going to beg him to spare my life, you know, and I'll try to keep my head up
06:21a little bit of dignity, and I'll be buried out on Perrywood Hill.
06:25Richard Cobb.
06:26You know, always at the forefront of my mind is there's not going to be any second chance.
06:29The state doesn't care to rehabilitate me, you know.
06:33I'm an unregenerable speck of cancer that needs to be excised from humanity before I grow and develop into something
06:40darker.
06:40In 2002, a convenience store in Rusk, Texas, was robbed.
06:45The perpetrators, Richard Cobb and Bianca Adams, abducted the shop clerks Candice Driver and Nikki Ansley DeMent, as well as
06:53a customer, Kenneth Vandiver.
06:55Later, Cobb shot Kenneth, who succumbed to the injury.
06:58One of the women was sexually assaulted by Adams, and both were shot, though they survived.
07:04He dreamed every night of that murder.
07:12He would see it all act out every time.
07:17In a rare appearance on the BBC's Life and Death Row, Cobb blamed the state for his lack of rehabilitation,
07:23describing his existence as malignant in the eyes of the law.
07:27He stared straight down the camera as he spoke of non-attachment and denounced capital punishment.
07:32Richard Cobb was executed in 2013, and per reports, he disturbingly yelled, wow, after being given the lethal injection.
07:41From every negative situation, from every dark situation, there's room for growth, no matter what it is.
07:48Aaron Gunches.
07:49At 10.33 a.m., inmate Aaron Gunches was put to death by lethal injection, the first execution after the
07:56state paused them in 2023.
07:57On a fateful day in 2002, this man shot his girlfriend, Catherine Leacher's ex-husband, Ted Price.
08:05He was placed on death row for the crime, and he reportedly requested that his execution be carried out.
08:10While incarcerated, Gunches spoke to journalist Emily Holshouser for the Arizona Mirror.
08:16Explaining his decision to be an execution volunteer, he said he considered death better than imprisonment.
08:22He insisted he wasn't, quote, freaking out, and dismissed the concept of death row being the worst of the worst,
08:29calling such a description as a mere soundbite.
08:32In 2025, he was given the lethal injection.
08:36Today marks the final chapter in a process that has spanned nearly 23 years, but our journey of healing is
08:43far from over.
08:44Joseph Garcia.
08:45I see it, too. I see it, too. I know that this is vengeance. You know, that this is what
08:53they want.
08:53He was imprisoned at the John B. Connolly Unit in Texas for the 1996 murder of Miguel Luna when he
09:00escaped with six other prisoners in 2000.
09:03The group was dubbed the Texas Seven.
09:05Following their escape, they robbed a sports authority store in Irving.
09:08When policeman Aubrey Wright Hawkins arrived to stop them, he was fatally shot.
09:13Garcia maintained he never fired at the cop, but was sentenced to death.
09:17It's rough waking up to four walls, you know, and just knowing that you can't get out.
09:22You can't walk along the street and, you know, go to work or drive a car.
09:27He later told the Houston Chronicle he wished he could take everything back.
09:30Speaking with Texas Public Radio, he compared the act of being strapped down for execution by lethal injection to a
09:37crucifixion.
09:38On the show, on death row, he said he dreamt of his 99th birthday.
09:43Joseph Garcia was executed in 2018.
09:47I never meant this to happen, and I'm sorry.
09:51You know, all I can do is ask for forgiveness, man.
09:56You know?
09:58I never thought about death row before I got here.
10:01Honestly, I didn't know Texas had a death row.
10:03All right.
10:04That's how inconsidered people are of the death penalty.
10:07Before you find out, you're in a situation where you're facing.
10:11In 2008, Jessica Carson's young daughter, Amora, passed away.
10:16Her fiancé, Blaine Milam, reported her death to the police, claiming she was deceased when they found her.
10:22The couple later said they were performing an exorcism on Amora.
10:26Milam was eventually found guilty of taking the child's life, and it was even reported that he had tortured her.
10:31He was sent to death row in 2010 and was featured on the docuseries On Death Row, where he vehemently
10:38claimed he was innocent.
10:40Surely people think, how can you prepare yourself for something like this?
10:44Well, it's not easy, but you know that it might be coming, so you've got to prepare yourself for it.
10:52Reflecting on his relationship with Amora, he said he loved and missed her.
10:55But when asked if he thought of himself as the devil, he didn't exactly deny it.
11:00In 2025, moments before execution, he professed his faith in Jesus Christ.
11:06Why did it have to happen? Why did it happen? Why?
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11:28Ramiro Felix Gonzalez
11:38In 2002, a young woman named Bridget Townsend was found deceased in a southwest Texas field.
11:44Ramiro Felix Gonzalez, who, at the time, was locked away for life for the abduction and sexual assault of Florence
11:51Teach, confessed to murdering Bridget and was sentenced to death.
11:54He was executed in 2024.
11:57It didn't matter for me. You know, it mattered for that one woman who wanted to know what her daughter
12:01was. It was about her.
12:02On Townsend's 42nd birthday, in one of his final interviews, which is featured in Life and Death Row, he reflected
12:10on the morbidity and comicality of preparing for execution.
12:14He also spoke with the Marshall Project, opening up and finding freedom through faith and building genuine relationships with some
12:21of the officers in prison.
12:22Gonzalez expressed doubt that his execution would provide closure to the victim's family, but he hoped they'd accept his apology.
12:30I had to sign paperwork on who gets my body, what I want to do with it. Very morbid.
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