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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections

47 points · 139 comments · techolic

  1. tombert · · focus · HN ↗
    Oh yeah, I read about this.

    I'm pretty against capital punishment in general, so take that for what it is, but executing someone for something they did when they were eighteen really bothers me.

    I've never been a violent person but I do know that I was even more of an idiot then than I am now.

    1. sippingabonedry · · focus · HN ↗
      > for something they did when they were eighteen really bothers me

      She lured a classmate into the woods, slit her throat with a box cutter after torturing her for half an hour, bashed her skull open with a rock for good measure, then brought a piece of her skull to school the next day.

      > I was even more of an idiot then than I am now

      Do you think the above should be chalked up as normal childhood indiscretion?

      1. fy20 · · focus · HN ↗
        Sounds more like they to be in a mental hosptial than a prison.
        1. aaron695 · · focus · HN ↗

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