“They can’t hang me twice.” (i) Who says this? (ii) Why does the speaker say it?

(i) The intruder says the line.
(ii) The intruder had been telling Gerrard that he had murdered one man, and that he would not back away from murdering him too. He wasn’t afraid and his plan was to kill Gerard because the police could not hang him twice for two murders.

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