Remember "Cool Hand Luke"

J.W. Ledford was executed on Wednesday morning for killing a 73-year-old man in 1992. Ledford quoted from the film "Cool Hand Luke" prior to receiving the lethal injection. (The Associated Press)
A convicted murderer who was executed in Georgia early Wednesday morning quoted from the movie “Cool Hand Luke” before getting a lethal injection of compounded barbiturate pentobarbital.
J.W. Ledford, 45, was convicted of murder in the January 1992 stabbing death of his 73-year-old neighbor, Dr. Harry Johnston. He died at 1:17 a.m. at the state prison in Jackson, Warden Eric Sellers told witnesses.
Ledford smiled to witnesses upon entering the viewing area where he was to be executed before making a final statement.
"What we have here is a failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach," Ledford said. "I am not the failure. You are the failure to communicate."
"You can kiss my white trash ###," he added, continuing to smile.

 

Probably smelled horrible in that room a couple minutes after death.