{"id":2474,"date":"2022-06-04T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathanddisease.com\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2022-06-04T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:30:39","slug":"coconut-cake-after-39-years-on-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathanddisease.com\/coconut-cake-after-39-years-on-death-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Coconut cake after 39 years on Death Row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The average time prisoners spend on Death Row in the US is 15 years. A quarter of them die of natural causes while awaiting execution<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u2620\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tab\/1\/16\/2620.png\"><br>The current record is held by jointly held by Thomas Knight (executed after 39 years on death row) and Gary Alvord (died of a brain tumour after 39 years on death row).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Knight (pictured) murdered a couple in 1974 after forcing them to withdraw money from a bank<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcb0\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t5a\/1\/16\/1f4b0.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd2b\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tfd\/1\/16\/1f52b.png\">&nbsp;He was arrested 19 days later. While awaiting trial, he escaped and robbed a shop \u2013 murdering the man on the checkout. He was arrested again 2 months later. He was tried and sentenced to death. While on death row, he murdered a prison guard with a sharpened spoon<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd44\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t11\/1\/16\/1f944.png\"><br>After multiple appeals and rulings, he was executed in 2014 by lethal injection. His last meal was sweet potato pie, coconut cake, banana bread, strawberries, ice cream and a bottle of Sprite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average time prisoners spend on Death Row in the US is 15 years. 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