This week in 2007

“When the Browns are in the Super Bowl in the next five years, you’ll know I’m up there doing my magic. . . . I know I flipped some worlds upside down. For me, it’s fine, but the state needs to learn this ain’t the answer. This is no deterrent to crime. Some are falsely convicted, railroaded. The state needs to wake up. Maybe they will follow the Europeans. God is the only one who knows.”

— James Filiaggi, convicted of murder, lethal injection, Ohio.
Executed April 24, 2007

In a wide-ranging final statement, Filiaggi touched on subjects including his love for his daughters, football’s Cleveland Browns, and capital punishment. Filiaggi faced lethal injection for the murder of his ex-wife, Lisa, after a long history of domestic violence and intimidation.