A few weeks ago, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice published the last statements of 444 executed death-row inmates on their website. Mark Schaver took the data and used IBM’s ManyEyes website to visualize the data in a variety of ways with some interesting results:
The most frequently used words of those about to die were “love” and “family.”
You can also see the most frequently used two-word phrases. Here “stay strong” was used twice as often as “Jesus Christ.”
