Thompson herself stated that she would not hang, and when her parents were allowed to visit her she urged her father to simply take her home.
トンプソン自身も「自分は絞首刑にはなるものか」と述べ、両親が彼女のもとを訪れることを許された時、彼女は父親に自分を家に連れて行くように強く促した。