Name: 20 Shocking Confessions From Death Row Inmates
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When I got into clown makeup, I regressed into childhood.

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It was fun being a clown because you could be yourself or just let yourself go and act a fool.

And today we're looking at the most compelling, if not revealing, admissions made by prison inmates awaiting execution today.

If it were possible, I wish that I could take every bit of hurt on myself.

In 1997, 20 year old Christopher Tapp confessed to the murder of Angie Dodge in Idaho Falls, although his DNA didn't match and Tapp denied any involvement.

After more than 28 hours of interrogation over 23 days, Tapp confessed to participating in Angie's murder.

But his subsequent death penalty was controversial as he would change his story in multiple interviews as evidence only became less damning.

It wasn't until 2001 when Tapp recanted his confession.

I continue to give them story after story and they should have just stopped.

A lengthy investigation found that police coerced the suspect in the hopes that he would implicate his friend Benjamin Hobbs, who was himself cleared by DNA evidence.

Tapp was finally set free in 2007 as one of the most tragic cases of police investigation.

So corrupt that it took years for the victim to expose it.

I've actually become that productive member of society.

In 2019, Brian Dripps Sr. Was convicted after genetic genealogy accurately identified him as Dodge's killer.

Letting the devil in Angel Maturino Resendes the railroad killer committed many unholy acts in his travels between Mexico and the United States.

Angel Maturino Resendez's final illegal entry into El Paso was to surrender in 1999.

the killer ultimately accepted his fate over spending a lifetime behind bars, we the jury found the defendant unheld Maturino Resendez guilty of capital murder as charged in the indictment.

The most unsettling surprise came just before Resendiz execution on June 27, 2006.

His final statement expressed remorse for allowing, quote, the devil to rule his life and contentment that he was getting what he deserved.

This infamous moment of contrition raised questions about decency even in the cruelest people.

With more than a dozen suspected victims, though, Resendez himself felt he was beyond redemption.

When the last appeal was denied, he was put to death in June 2006.

Making an exception, Michael Bruce Ross, the roadside strangler, confessed to taking at least eight lives after his downfall in 1987, Michael Bruce Ross then shockingly embraced Catholicism to the extent of placing reverence on human life.

He even stated that he philosophically opposed the death penalty after extensively studying the subject.

However, this statement ironically came after he waived his legal appeal in 2004.

Ross believed that this process was prolonging the suffering of those affected by his crimes and that his death would act as a sort of signpost for their grieving process.

There was nothing they could have said or done.

That signpost would be May 13, 2005, when an opponent of capital punishment willingly became the first person in Connecticut to receive it in 45 years.

For some of us, death is not a punishment.

In 1994, the Gainesville Ripper pleaded guilty to committing five murders in Florida in pursuit of celebrity.

This is a person who volcanically erupted.

Behaviorally, this was achieved when his killing spree influenced Ghostface in the Wes Craven slasher scream.

Of course, Danny Rolling was also believed to have taken three lives in his hometown of Shrevenport, Louisiana, in 1989.

I let the evil in, and the evil just took over.

And it was like when the sun would go down.

This case would go unclosed until the day after Rolling was executed in 2006, his spiritual advisor revealed that the condemned had handed him a written confession to the Shravan Court killings.

Rolling, waiting until the last minute to give the public closure was its own testament to his twisted desire for attention.

I hope I die half as bravely as the people who perished at my hand.

It was initially believed that William Clyde Gibson's violent tendencies had gotten gruesomely carried away with three women.

I mean, I could kill a person and just go out to dinner.

He blamed an evil force when he confessed to the murders and was strangely thankful when he was sentenced to death in 2013.

But he had more to say for Trevor MacDonald's 2018 documentary, Inside Indiana's Death Row.

Gibson went on to claim in multiple interviews that he's killed more than 30 people in several states.

So you killed a greater number of people than the police know?

Yeah, this includes Elizabeth Banister, who was killed in Evansville 12 years before Gibson's capture.

To what extent his claims are true, it's now clear that Indiana is set to execute a more calculating killer than we initially thought.

You got an adrenaline rush from killing people.

I mean, I got a kick out of cutting them up, sending a message.

David Mason, with his five or six victims, including his prison cellmate, California determined in 1984 that execution was the only way to stop David Mason.

In a shocking development, however, he developed extreme remorse after coming to terms with the trauma behind his axe.

This gave his lawyers a strong argument for commuting Mason's sentence to life.

He instead withdrew all outstanding appeals in 1993.

This sparked an uproar from anti death penalty activists and a lawyer who claimed that his client was mentally unfit.

But Mason was determined in his belief that his death would deter potential murderers.

The state granted him the ability to abort his execution to the very moment it was carried out.

On August 24, 1993, accepting the label Frank Athen Walls.

On August 25, 1988, Frank Athen Walls fate was sealed by two murders during a home invasion in Florida.

Evidence that he also killed Audrey Gigi was punitively irrelevant.

Nonetheless, Walls accept a plea deal whereby he would not stand trial for the third murder and confessed to committing two more in 85 and 86.

Walls would later confess to two more murders.

The already condemned simply did not want to go through the ordeal of receiving another death penalty.

It's not like Walls was looking to protect his reputation when he willingly took on the label of serial killer.

I appreciate any of the victims families here today.

I'm sorry for all the suffering I caused all these years.

He was executed on December 18, 2025, exactly 40 years after his first confirmed murder.

Frank Athen Walls was carried out at 6:11pm A Wasted Life.

Lawrence Bittaker Roy Norris was able to avoid the death penalty by testifying against the other toolbox killer in 1981.

The evidence stacked against the killers weighed most heavily on Norris, whose fear of the death penalty led him to striking a deal with authorities.

So there was nothing revelatory about Lawrence Biddaker confessing in interviews to at least five murders and to feeling no remorse.

The real shock was how death row changed him.

In a 2016 interview with the Sacramento Bee, the 76 year old admitted he had grown too ashamed to seek forgiveness from the families of his victims.

He furthermore acknowledged that he had totally wasted his life.

Even when finally taking accountability for his actions, Whitaker managed to frame the tragedy as his own.

He died awaiting execution in 2019, before Norris passed away in prison two months later.