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Comedy is easy. Dying is hard.

Apparently, comedy is hard. And dying, it turns out in this case, is pretty easy– especially with the able assistance of the Oklahoma Corrections Department! From the CNN.com article:

Condemned prisoner Patrick Knight was executed Tuesday evening for the deaths of an Amarillo-area couple without delivering on a promise to tell a joke in his final statement.

Knight had been soliciting jokes in the mail and on a Web site, sometimes receiving as many as 20 a day.[…]

After expressing love to some friends, he said, “I said I was going to tell a joke. Death has set me free. That’s the biggest joke. I deserve this.”

With an act like that, he’s gotta close.

Randall County Sherrif Joel Richardon said it best:”Despite all the hype about his joke, it turns out he’s not much of a comedian,” he said. “He’s simply an executed cold-blooded killer.”