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I was sentenced to death twice in the same murder case within a year’s time. Thompson received a third life sentence in 1935 for stabbing and killing inmate Everett Melvin, who attempted to rape him. During this trip they encountered brothers, unknown to Thompson but disliked for selfish reasons by his hunting companions who provoked a fight. My daddy died before I came back to the Lord, though, and I’m sad about this, because I wish he knew that I am a preacher—for that would please him very much. It’s not a sin to kill an animal. They put a steel door on it and put platted bars over the door opening, which was about a foot square. After some months in the morgue, Thompson was given a Bible to read. And then a faithful life unto death will bring eternal life to you. He died there four days later of heart failure at the age of 74. The first sentence was reversed; I was again tried and sentenced a second time. Funeral services were at the Sunset Church in Lubbock, Texas July 5 and interment at Hillsboro July 6. He would let me talk fifteen or twenty minutes. He initially probed in the book to prove that people who believed it were fools. You know, if one of those guards had been killed that I was shooting at, I certainly would have received the death penalty again. She accepted. If you haven’t obeyed the gospel of Christ we would encourage you to do so while time and opportunity are given you. Thompson was eligible for parole for the first time in 1949 and routinely denied. And Jesus Christ His Son died for your sins. The cause of Thompson's death has not been revealed yet. Deezer D died on January 7, 2021, of a suspected heart attack. I had two knife fights with fellow inmates on that prison unit and killed both of those men. All rights reserved. Why? So they didn’t have a place in the Walls to baptize anybody. They had built a new chapel in the Walls Unit since they baptized me. We met two men, one of whom had had some trouble with the older brother and his daddy. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair. Toward the end of this visit, he proposed marriage. But if you’ve ever killed somebody, you can’t restore that life. ”Longtime lawyer and Republican Party force Clyde Siebman passed away Friday morning. John Thompson Jr., the Hall of Fame basketball coach and Georgetown legend who became the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship, has died, his family said on Monday. Discovering this, jailer Tom Jones, rushed Ratliff, who shot him three times. He loves God when he sees the love that was manifested in the Son of God. The more I studied it, the more it convinced me that it was a book of truth and I was false. Somewhere I’d heard that the Bible was a book of contradictions, and so could not be the Word of God. He was 67. God made man in His own likeness and in His own image, and that’s why it is a sin to kill a man. I made four major attempts to escape, but I was always plotting and planning to escape. Thompson was also a guest on the Chaplain Ray (Ray Hoekstra) radio program. When one finds out that he is a sinner, lost, undone, and without hope, and he turns back to God, God will help him, and use him in this world. I had made up my mind that this was the end of life. As I pulled this door open I looked around and saw these two men, that were friends of mine, lying on those steps dying. There are two motivating factors in a person’s life. And I would make them kill me or I would get away. Thornton was the husband of Bonnie Parker who was still legally married to him when she and Clyde Barrow were killed on May 23, 1934. I wrote to a preacher in Dallas and asked him to come down and baptize these three men. Thompson, a naïve country boy feeling great remorse, signed a confession taking full blame for the murders. I wasn’t a hippie, but I must have looked one, because they only gave me a bath and shave once a week. Mr. Ellis, the manager of the prison, told her one day, about four or five years before I got out, “Young lady, you might as well go on and forget this fellow. They were found dead from … The press's portrayal of Bonnie and Clyde was sometimes at odds with the reality of their life on the road, especially for Parker. I wore holes in that concrete floor where I made the turn at each end (with my bare feet). I want you to know how glad I am to tell you that there is a God in heaven, who is a merciful God. Finally they sent me out to Ramsey Farm and I did real well. There was no time to even wash our socks. Dorothy Stratten died a violent death at the hands of her estranged husband, Paul Snider, who was fueled by a jealous rage. His life story has been recorded in a book by journalist Don Umphrey (The Meanest Man in Texas, Quarry Press, P.O. As expected, Thompson was found guilty. An autopsy report released Friday (June 29), reports that R&B singer Tony Thompson of the legendary group Hi-Five, died accidentally while "huffing" Freon After the stay of execution, I had ninety days to live. She went to everybody about me—trying to get me out of isoIation and then out of prison. First encouraged and then pushed into the fray, Thompson ended up shooting each of the brothers, and his comrades otherwise took part in killing them. This publication is made out of public concerns, expressions of grieves, and sympathy. Kingstree, SC Clyde Leroy Thompson, Jr., died Saturday, April 9, 2016. It sure was! I dedicate this song to New Zealand where "my dreams have withered and died." Soon after, Bonnie met Clyde, and although the pair fell in love, she never divorced Thornton. I committed murder, and there are a lot of people saved in this world today because I have lived in it—even though there are eight dead because of me. ©2021. But it was just fortunate they were not. Thompson may have met a similar fate, but due to rumors that someone was planning to help him escape, the key to his cell was locked in a safe at the new courthouse. Charges were dropped against the younger of the two, and he agreed to testify for the prosecution. The two struck up a friendship via letter-writing. I have! It is great and wonderful what God did for me. Ratliff was found guilty of their murders and sent to death row. “Some of the most beautiful people I’ve ever met were in handicapped bodies,” he responded. But when they come to realize that the blood of Christ is all-sufficient and can wipe away the guilt of sin, then they commit their lives to Christ, and no longer do they fear and tremble; they have put their trust where it ought to be and they know that God can and will deliver them from the power of darkness. He summarized his story in a 52-page book, The Life Story of Clyde Thompson—Ex-83. After tending to him on the night of November 18, 1929, they left his cell door open momentarily while tending to others. In November of 1933, a Dallas grand jury issued a warrant for the arrest of Bonnie and I just wanted something to read to keep from going mad in that place. The marriage disintegrated within months, and Bonnie never again saw her husband after he was imprisoned for robbery in 1929. Despite these rejections, Julia continued her letter-writing campaign to state and prison officials. I now had three life sentences in the penitentiary and practically no hope of ever getting out, unless I broke out. “You would never want to meet me in person,” she wrote in one of her letters. (His execution number in the Texas electric chair was 83.) Umphrey, Don (2007). I have counseled with a number of men on four units of the prison system, but the doors are practically barred to me now because there were too many of them wanting to be baptized, and the denominational chaplains and the manager of the prison did not want those people baptized. My wife was there with a suit of clothes, a borrowed shirt, and a necktie. I had fallen so far that I would have killed every official and every inmate in the institution to escape from it. Thompson was later falsely accused of killing yet another inmate. When his wife became sick in 1927 and died of a tuberculosis-related disease, Thompson was distraught, but he worked hard to revive his former career as a dancer. Grant Thompson, who created and starred in the popular YouTube series King of Random, died this week at the age of 39. She went on to say that she had a severely misshapen spine to due scoliosis as child. We baptized nine out there at one time in a stock pond. I didn’t realize this at first. Well, I had turned back to the Lord and I didn’t care any more about my freedom. SNL's Kenan Thompson dishes about his weight loss, fatherhood and new sitcom that's in development. He came and the warden came around and got me and the three men and they were baptized. Christian friends would write me and send me literature, and I would take that literature and hand it to other people. Later, that brother was charged with robbery for things stolen from the two deceased brothers. The bodies were left in the woods, while Thompson and his accomplices returned home and vowed to keep quiet on the event. The deaths of the highly respected brothers, one of them age 19 and a student at what is now Tarleton State University, and the other in his twenties, shocked and angered citizens throughout west Texas. Depictions in fiction. They had already taken me out of my cell and given me my last bath; they had offered me my last meal. Before I send them on their way, I try to teach them the gospel of Christ and bring them to the Lord. A month after my trial the eighteen-year-old boy was tried and sentenced to death also. Thornton was the husband of Bonnie Parker who was still legally married to him when she and Clyde Barrow were killed on May 23, 1934. That’s when prison officials called him “The Meanest Man in Texas” in a radio broadcast and the prison chaplain said he was “a man without a soul.” This may have been ploy to finally land Thompson a seat in the electric chair. I felt that if I was going to spend my life in prison it would be a very short one. The governor debated about commuting my term to twenty years, but decided, on advice of counsel, that he would commute it to life. The mercy of God, the goodness and the blessing of God, that He showed to us through the blood of His Son. Clyde Siebman Death – Dead, Obituary, Funeral : Clyde Siebman Has Died. But they had laid a trap for us and we went right into an ambush. When people have committed great sins, they sometimes feel that God cannot forgive them and therefore they are fearful before God. They had two cases of murder against us. The radio over which I heard brother Wilmeth belonged to a guard; he had it out in the corridor of death row and I heard the gospel preached there. It is mighty sad to know that you’ve killed somebody and that you can’t do anything about it as far as giving back that life. There are eight people in their graves because I have lived, people who probably would be alive if I had not gotten them into trouble or killed them with my own hands. Had Christians come in, and services been held in that institution, I am sure that the horrible things which happened afterward would not have happened and I wouldn’t have spent twenty-five more years in prison after I had already been in for three. He was removed from the old morgue in 1944 and placed in close-custody cellblocks in the Walls Unit and later at the Wynne Unit. A large group of men subdued jailer Pack Kilborn while taking the jail keys, pulled a struggling Ratliff from his cell and lynched him in the street. This was at the Central Farm. But all of these people underestimated the power of God and the influence of a good woman. A guard shot and killed Lester, wounded Allen and recaptured Thompson. Here I am, nineteen years old, and I had never made a commitment to my Lord. Man is the crowning glory of God’s creation. Tolson is buried in the Congressional Cemetery, near Hoover's grave. Thompson’s biography The Meanest Man in Texas, written by Don Umphrey, was originally published in 1984 by Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee and has been in print continuously since 2001 with Quarry Press, Dallas, Texas. I didn’t even have a spoon to eat with, for they were afraid I would sharpen it and kill myself or somebody else. Among other courses of study, I took a two-year Bible course from Lee College in Tennessee. Not one Christian from the outside came in to encourage me in the way of the Lord. He was 62 years old…....” @KXIITV announced the passing of Siebman on social media on 5th, March 2021. He also wrote articles for religious publications. There, he obtained a loaded pistol from a desk drawer. I just thought there wasn’t much hope of getting out of there. They know they need help, and all it takes is somebody to guide them in the right way. The guard rode up to within thirty feet of me and said, “Stop or I will kill you, too.” I stopped and looked back and saw him about to shoot me and I ducked my head. The guard was very lenient with me. We captured two picket guards, got their two pistols, and with our knives and the two guards as shields, we went up the stairs to the arsenal. All the time I was in that building, I was allowed only a pair of shorts. There were three of us young men—I was seventeen, another thirteen, and his brother eighteen. A number of other people were baptized in that bathtub, too. The small cell was sandwiched between two tall buildings, and about five hours a day was the only time I could see my hand before me. Julia was the only one who responded. He’ll never get out of prison.” Well, that was the opinion of most of the officials down there and most of the inmates—and me, too. Thompson watched as Ratliff rushed from his cell and scampered down the stairs to the sheriff’s office. We went down the corridor of death row, where men were waiting to be executed, and where I had been waiting once. When you have just a little bucket of cold water to wash your hands with, and you pour it over that chili with the grease and grime, you can rub your hands together all you want, but it won’t come off. His death was unexpected and sudden. Having nothing better to do, I decided I could prove that. I know how that must have hurt my daddy, and it probably put him in an early grave. You know, this is the difference in what money can do. He refused to testify on his own behalf when his trial for first degree murder started on October 15, 1928. Grant Thompson, who as the "King of Random" racked up billions of video views on YouTube, has died, his family posted on his official social media accounts. I heard brother P.D. What was the cause of Thompson's death? (They were determined to sentence me to death.) After a year of knowing one another, she and I fell in love and planned to be married as soon as we could. At the time I didn’t think much about it. Thompson was 78. ISSN: 1559-2235. That was six days before I was to be executed. At one time, trying to escape,a young man was shot down by my side and killed, and another one was shot and wounded. The statement did not say where he died or cite a cause, but CNN said a family source said that he died at his home in Arlington, Va., having experienced multiple health problems. Another prisoner, already serving a life sentence, took credit for the killing. The officials of the penitentiary finally gave up on me. By signing up, you'll get thousands of step-by-step solutions to your homework questions. p. 1. All three of those men who went up those stairs with me died, and it is just amazing that I didn’t—or that I hadn’t killed somebody and been executed for that. Due to Julia’s respiratory problems, the Thompson family moved to Lubbock, Texas in 1977. where he served as the chaplain of the Lubbock County Jail until his death from a heart attack[2] on July 1, 1979. I had gotten acquainted with a Christian lady through a preacher friend who had been coming to see me. Clyde Thompson (1910–July 1, 1979[1]) was an American prisoner turned chaplain. His life story has been recorded in a book by journalist Don Umphrey ( The Meanest Man in Texas , Quarry Press, P.O. Then they built what they called “Little Alcatraz” out on the Eastham Farm, Northeast of Huntsville, and they took me out there with about twenty-five other fellows. Having reached the creek, we debated which way we would go. "I Was Sentenced to Death in the Electric Chair - A True Story." He was upgraded in status in early 1951 when he was removed from close confinement and sent to the Ramsey Farm in Rosharon (Brazoria County), Texas. My feet got as hard as rocks. I sent for brother Willmeth and asked that he come up and baptize me, and he did. I didn’t believe that there could be a God who was merciful and could let these things happen to me. Seemingly going insane after one of his accomplices was executed, Ratliff was returned to Eastland for a sanity trial. Ratliff had taken part in what is known as the Santa Claus Bank Robbery in Cisco on December 23, 1927. Bonnie and Clyde are consistently credited with killing 13 people, nine of them law enforcement personnel.This number doesn't include Clyde's first murder, committed while in prison, of a fellow inmate who had been raping him. I had a high crowned hat on and he shot it off with a load of buckshot. Thompson was later falsely accused of killing yet another inmate. A short time later, the powerful car was doing 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour) down a back-country straightaway when they spotted a truck that looked like it'd broken down. The Truth on Baptism Should Not Be “Watered Down”. They just fixed me up to stay! “Our father was an inspiration to many and devoted his life to developing young people not simply on, but most importantly, off the basketball court,” the family said in a statement. He did. Julia died a decade later. It has been mentioned that she passed away one year ago, but no other details have been provided yet. There I saw these three men buried with the Lord in baptism and raised to walk in newness of life. But the “ugly duckling” became a preacher. Thompson enjoyed his greatest ministry success when helping prisoners and former prisoners. This unit was housed at the Eastham Farm in Houston County, Texas. This trial was held in the auditorium of Eastland High School (which is still in use today) because the former county courthouse had been torn down, and a new one was under construction. You think that wasn’t a thrill to me? Two days before I was to be executed I received a stay of execution to await the third trial of the other boy—which was the second murder case. Thompson’s legal troubles started when he went hunting with two brothers, ages 13 and 18, near Cisco, Eastland County, Texas on the night of September 7, 1928. I’d been in prison twenty-eight years, but they said they would review my case again in three years. Enjoy! These people are really open-minded. The Meanest Man in Texas, 3rd Edition. Just before Christmas, 1946, he received a Christmas card from a woman with whom he was not previously acquainted, Miss Julia Perryman of Meridian, Texas. As the show progresses past the pilot episode, we will most likely learn more about his wife and how she passed away. I lost my faith completely. I already had changed my attitude toward man, and it wasn’t too hard to get this hatred of people out of my heart. For nine months in 1960, Thompson served as the superintendent of the Manuelito Navajo Indian Children’s Home in Gallup, New Mexico. He is most noted for being cited and labeled as The Meanest Man in Texas. How did Dearon Thompson die? Then what is life for me? Thomason was the first enlisted Marine to receive the Medal of Honor during World War II. He subsequently lied on the witness stand in order to spare his older brother. On March 16, 1988, Thompson and his wife Trudy were killed by two hooded gunmen outside their home in Bradbury, California, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. The hardest thing for me to overcome was cursing and bywords. It’s probable that Clyde, at least, never knew what hit him; the rifle shot to his head killed him instantly. Mr. Thompson was born June 27, 1943, in New Haven, Connecticut, a son of the late Clyde Thompson and th late Margaret Thompson. Clyde Thompson is Dead Clyde Thompson, 68, died in Methodist Hospital, Lubbock, Texas on Tuesday, July 3. The 78-year-old was the first black basketball head coach to win the NCAA National Championship and carved a unique place in history for himself as he elevated Georgetown University basketball at the national stage. My daddy came to see me after I went to the Retrieve Farm, and I took the Bible that he had given me on death row and handed it to him and told him to take it because I didn’t believe it any more, and I would not try to live it. The Lord knows that I would gladly take the place of any of those people in those graves if he could stand on the earth and be a child of God; but I can’t take their places. I put the Christmas play on for Captain McAdams the last two years, and I’m real proud of those plays and the men who worked with me. It was all right to teach them and encourage them to live right, but not to baptize them. It was an old concrete building containing six slabs that they had used to put caskets on. Later, my case came up for consideration for parole. ChristianCourier.com. Sometimes we want to limit the power of the blood of Christ. Access date: May 6, 2021. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/1377-i-was-sentenced-to-death-in-the-electric-chair-a-true-story. After I was there two or three months, I asked the guard who brought my food if he would bring me a Bible. Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when she was 19 years old and her husband (she married when she was 16) was serving time in jail for murder. The devil is pretty smart; as long as he can keep a person from being saved he is real happy, and he has a lot of people working for him in this world today. I didn’t even believe him. When I quit school in the fourth grade, I was fourteen years old, the oldest and dumbest kid in my class—and the most embarrassed. Bonnie and Clyde had no idea that total devastation was just around the bend as they drove their stolen Ford V8 on May 23, 1934.. Bonnie Parker had taken one bite of … But six hours before I was to be executed, the warden came in and told me that my sentence of death had been commuted to life imprisonment. Grant Thompson cause of death: How did YouTube’s King of Random die? They worked us as high as seven or eight weeks (from daylight until dark) without even one Sunday of rest. A year after I was released from death row they sent me to the Retrieve Farm which is down close to Angleton on the Gulf Coast, and this was a living hell on earth. While there, they adopted Navajo infant, Shirley Anne. Despite these dire circumstances, Thompson’s story is now used to illustrate hope for those in seemingly hopeless situations. [NOTE: Clyde Thompson died of a heart attack July 1, 1979. One of them still had his pistol in his hand. Thompson’s collaborators were soon arrested. It’s probable that Clyde, at least, never knew what hit him; the rifle shot to his head killed him instantly. She worked and would not give up. I had sixty days to live. Ratliff was soon subdued, but the wounds to Jones subsequently proved fatal. They wouldn’t even let me have a light, running water, or anything else. I was there to greet them and to say a prayer for them when they came out of that old bathtub where I supposedly took my last bath. As we approach the end of Boardwalk Empire, currently in its final season, it’s natural to wonder if the series’ lead character, Nucky Thompson, will survive the finale.Honestly, it’s hard to say. He and Julia worked for two years at Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Texas, and he worked as a minister most of the time from 1957 to 1970. This commutation had been supported by some leading citizens of Eastland County due to the inequity of his sentence in comparison to 10 years in prison assessed to his older hunting companion and their belief that Thompson was mentally deficient. Thompson, Clyde. I think that my life is a testimony to the fact that a person who has committed murder can be saved. He was again refused parole later that year and in 1953. Beloved, the possibilities of teaching people who have been in trouble are tremendous. With his death at such a young age, many people … So they charged me with a stabbing though I didn’t kill the man, and the only reason they didn’t try me for my life on that case is because they couldn’t find witnesses to testify against me. Ellis, the reform-minded general manager of the Texas Department of Corrections. Thompson was finally awarded parole and released from prison on November 1, 1955. I couldn’t even raise my arm. He attended Guilford Schools and the First Congregation Church … As Christmas of 1947 approached, she drove to the prison and had their first face-to-face meeting. The parole officers decided they would put it off for three years, and they wrote me a letter to that effect. The board turned me down, but two months later they released me on conditional pardon. Ordinarily a fellow would get five years or maybe ten for a crime of that kind in the prison (for fighting for his life and killing somebody) and yet they sentenced me to life both times. It was estimated that the story reached 250.000 prisoners. In this isolation cell I had three steps to make from one end to the other, and I walked back and forth in there like a wild animal for five and one-half years. Finally, over on the Eastham Farm, four of us plotted and planned to take the arsenal and give guns to everyone who would shoot one. Because man is made in the likeness and image of God. Somebody remembered this old deep bathtub around on death row and suggested we use it. The jailers apparently assumed that Ratliff had, indeed, lost his wits. The officials soon realized that I was not a man who was afraid to die, and that I was determined to get away, so they put me in with other people of this kind so that we might be watched more closely. While I was waiting on death row, they dismissed the second case against me. Box 181736, Dallas, TX). I was released from Huntsville prison after being in two months past twenty-eight years. I was determined to get out of prison. This was attributable to not starting his formal education until age eight and the frequent moves of his family. I was an old country boy and I had never owned a suit of clothes, and had never even worn a necktie. They were afraid if I had anything else I would hang myself. Had that young man received the death penalty in that murder trial I should not be here tonight, I assure you. He went to the warden and received permission to bring me a New Testament with Psalms. If you have fallen short of God’s will, won’t you make it right with Him and live for Him in full dedication of life that He may bless you here and hereafter? All the light I had came through those bars. The book contained highlights of his life and poems he had written as a prisoner. Well, things went from bad to worse. They would take me out of my cell and down a corridor where there were men on each side, and here they would bathe and shave me, and I would pass out literature. When I came to realize that this was actually the word of God and the only hope for man in this world, I repented in tears, on my knees day and night for months. They finally let me begin to get other things in there to study, and they even let me have a light in the place; finally they put running water in there, too. On the day Bonnie and Clyde were killed in 1934, she was still wearing Thorntons wedding ring and had a tattoo on the inside of her right … We would come in so tired at night that we would just fall in bed and not even remember that we had come into the building or whether or not we went to supper; we would just fall exhausted and then the next morning we were up and at it again. When I began studying in that isolation cell I couldn’t even speak or spell the most common words correctly. A year after arriving at the Retrieve Prison Farm, Brazoria County, in 1932, Thompson took part in an ill-fated escape attempt with fellow convicts Barney Allen and E.L. Lester. I read the Bible and kept asking God if He could and would forgive a wretch like me, and take me and use me to His honor and glory. My work now involves meeting those released inmates. And we say, “Oh, well, you can be forgiven of this sin or that sin, or some other sin, but the Lord just can’t forgive this one.” Beloved, if He can forgive one sin He can forgive them all, and if the blood of Christ is sufficient for one sin, it is sufficient for all sins. Now there are radios all over the prison system; everybody has access to either a radio or a TV. I knew they wouldn’t give me anything else to read. Thompson and others took part in an escape attempt on October 3, 1937, resulting in the deaths of inmates Austin Avers, Forrest Gibson and Roy Thornton. The King James Version was quite difficult then, though now I love it since I have educated myself in it. The minister at her church knew of Thompson and encouraged members to send him a card. 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