“Yes, boy, I could sure go for some beef stew and a chicken bone. That’s it.”
Christopher Newtown was executed in Ohio yesterday for beating and choking cellmate Jason Brewer to death over a game of chess. The statement he made as his last words are the subject of this post.
In an interview with reporters last month, Newton said he killed Brewer because he repeatedly gave up while they were playing chess.
“Every time I put him in check, he’d give up and want to start a new game,” Newton said. “And I tried to tell him you never give up … I just got tired of it.”
