Make A Statement


During a war a general was captured, brought to trial and convicted of 
espionage. The judge was in a good mood, when he passed the death sentence, 
so he said to the general, "Tomorrow when we pick you up for your execution I 
want you to make a statement. If your statement is true you will be shot to 
death. If your statement is false you will die by hanging. This means that you 
determine the method of your own execution." 

When they picked up the general the next morning he made a statement of five 
words. The statement he made was of such a nature that they could not determine
the method of execution. What did he say?
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Answer:
"I will die by hanging!"
If they had hung him the statement would have been true, and therefore he 
should have been shot. If however he had been shot that would have made 
the statement false and brought them back to square one.