These 15 Last Words of Executed Criminals Will Shock You

Peter Kurten, “The Vampire of Dusseldorf”

Crime: Numerous murders, rape, theft and arson

Death: Guillotine on July 2, 1931

Last Words: “Tell me – after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”