| 1000th Death Row Prisoner 'Really Bummed
Out' Upcoming execution victim, 57-year-old
Kenneth Lee Boyd, has
stated
that he's very depressed about his impending doom, "not because of the
dying thing, but the symbolic thing, the number thing. All the guys are
calling me Mister Thousand and things like that. Man, that's not me. I don't
want people to remember me as some kind of number. I want them to remember
me for who I was - a cold blooded murderer, sure, but also a guy named Kenny
who has feelings too."
Boyd was scheduled to be the 1001st person to be executed
since the 1976 decision reinstating the death penalty, but Governor Mark
Warned of Virginia threw a wrench into the workers when he granted clemency
to prisoner Robin Lovitt. "Yeah, that was a real pisser, man. I could have
dealt with being 1001... that's not such a high profile gig. It's even kind
of cool cause it's so symmetrical. I mean, like 1001, you know, you can
spell it backwards or turn it upside down, and it's like still 1001. I'd
still be famous, but I wouldn't be famous cause I was like the 1000th person
to die. I'd be famous cause I had a cool number. Even being number 999 would
have been pretty good, cause, like you turn it upside down, and whoa,
it's like 666." |
