This isn’t exactly the best character witness but I think it is interesting nonetheless.
Before he died Wednesday evening, death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop apologized to his victim’s family, thanked America and urged people to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
“For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet is to vote for Barack Obama because his supporters have been working behind the scenes to end this practice,” Bishop said.
Bishop, 34, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:14 p.m. – the second inmate put to death in Mississippi in two months. Earl Wesley Berry, 49, was executed May 21.
I’m pretty sure that Bishop’s endorsement will not win over many voters in Mississippi, or any place else. But there is something poignant about a man’s last words being about ending the practice of capital punishment.
