Upcoming execution victim, 57-year-old Kenneth Lee Boyd, has stated that he is very depressed about his impending doom, "not because of the dying thing, but the symbolic thing, the number thing. All the guys are calling me Mister Thousand and things like that. Man, that's not me. I don't want people to remember me as some kind of number. I want them to remember me for who I was - a cold blooded murderer, sure, but also a guy named Kenny who has feelings too."

Boyd was scheduled to be the 1001st person to be executed since the 1976 decision reinstating the death penalty, but Governor Mark Warned of Virginia threw a wrench into the workers when he granted clemency to prisoner Robin Lovitt. "Yeah, that was a real pisser, man. I could have dealt with being 1001... that's not such a high profile gig. It's even kind of cool cause it's so symmetrical. I mean, like 1001, you know, you can spell it backwards or turn it upside down, and it's like still 1001. I'd still be famous, but I wouldn't be famous cause I was like the 1000th person to die. I'd be famous cause I had a cool number. Even being number 999 would have been pretty good, cause, like you turn it upside down, and whoa, it's like 666."