Here’s an interesting article posted yesterday about John Snowden, who was hanged in Maryland in 1919 for murder based on shaky evidence. He was pardoned on grounds of possible innocence in 2001, and a memorial marker has been erected near his grave. His final words appear on the memorial marker, and they are as follows:
I have been imprisoned and now I am about to shake hands with time and welcome eternity, for in a few hours from now, I shall step out of time into eternity to pay the penalty of a crime I am not guilty of. God knows that I am telling the truth, and after I have been hanged, I am asking the authorities to please continue to search for the murderer. Though I have suffered, if it would have proved to the world that I was innocent, I would have willingly gone through that awful degree again. I have offered up a prayer for you all. I want to thank everybody that have spent their time and money to help me. Through their song and prayer my soul was made alive and I am leaving on the everlasting Arm of Jesus. I could not leave this world with a lie in my mouth.
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‘I could not leave this world with a lie in my mouth’. What a powerful dying declaration. Res Gestae. That’s a quote for all time!