‘Pog mo thoin’-- executed Boston murderer gives his last words in Gaelic

Utah used to give the option of death by hanging or being shot. Great to have options. One guy took hanging because he wanted to make the State pay for building a scaffold. To all those weeping and wailing about the death penalty being a revenge killing, you don't have a clue. Try going back in your childhood. Remember seeing the pictures of some colonist in the "stocks?" That is what all punishment is about. It is a warning to others. This guy was a worthless punk, but at least he took the advice John Brown is said to have given his son: "If you can't live like a man, at least you can die like one."

He lived like a dog but he died like a man, and THAT was the Irish in him. I'll weep for his passing but toast his courage in the face of death. I should hope I make half as good a show. Any that think the death penalty is "uncivilised" are right. The easiest way to "civilise" a population is to teach them cowardness. It takes a brave people to mete out death in punishment to they who deserve it, and it's not for the faint-hearted.

I think Gleason was a person without any direction. His upbringing may have contributed to his way of life, but in the end, it is up to us to choose a better path. He has done that, and God Rest his soul.

Why even publish this? Claiming him as an Irish-American isn't exactly something to be proud of.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. To kill someone by the death penalty is revenge and uncivilized. Justice is lowered to that of the murderers act The death penalty is an emotional reaction endorsing revenge.It does not bring back the victim but dishonors their life. Killing the murderer is doing so in their victims name. The victim life is then equal to their murderers. "I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge." Albert Pierrepoint (Brit hangman) "The flames of the capital punishment solution are fanned by misleading political rhetoric and journalistic sensationalism." Donald Cabana, former warden of Parchman. Another Irish saying "Tagann naomh on am ata caite ag taisteal an peacach ina dtodhchai " translates to "A saint comes from the past as the sinner travels into their future" Every Saint has a past as each sinner a future. We cannot judge

An ancient (?) Irish Proverb: He who exits on his own terms has a happy death.

No guns will be taken away from LAW ABIDING PEOPLE. Quit drinking the kool-aid the right wing fringe is feeding you.

But at least he did not use a gun. Will the current Administration please keep that in mind as they craft a byzentine bureacracy to disarm citizens.

Another example of why the death penalty shoud be abolshed. These guys want to die but don't have the guts to do it themselves. This creep should have been locked in a cage no bigger than a bathroom for ever, that would have been more punishment then a quick death, but like dallas75216 said his punishment has only begun so I guess if you look at it that way, I guess I can agree with it.

what really sucks for him is there aint no way he will get out his homemade prison in eternity.

He's a good man in my eyes, a "Dead Criminal". He sucked it up and tood his punishment

apart from going out with out mewling kicking screaming and crying,which takes an amount of courage,he led a life of criminality,seemed to accept his fate and met it,he said he only killed fellow crims,so thats okay then?glad i wern,t in the same cell though.

Another fine example of "All the Irish or Irish-American news that fits, we print".