Fwd: Selling Tickets to Your Execution on eBay

[Brad De Long]

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>Date:         Thu, 25 May 2000 10:37:06 -0400
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>From: "Stephen T. Middlebrook" <Stephen.Middlebrook at FMS.TREAS.GOV>
>Subject:      Selling Tickets to Your Execution on eBay
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>In Texas, a condemned man gets five tickets to his own execution to distribute
>as he sees fit.-- until a prisoner on death row listed his five tickets to his
>execution on eBay.  eBay quickly pulled the tickets.  The State of Texas said
>they wouldn't have honored the auctioned tickets anyway.  There's 
>not much of an
>explanation, however, as to why you can't sell the tickets to your own death.
>I'm suprised Texas doesn't start a "pay-per-view" web site showing the
>executions--they could really clean up.
>
>stm
>
>http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/deathrow000525.html