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| TN executes blind man for killing ex-girlfriend in 1991 - He should have seen it coming |
| 2019-12-06 |
| [CBS News] A blind prisoner convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend by setting her on fire in her car was put to death Thursday in Tennessee's electric chair. Lee Hall, 53, became only the second inmate without sight to be executed in the U.S. since the reinstatement of the nation's death penalty in 1976. Hall was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at a Nashville maximum-security prison, prison officials said. He chose the electric chair over Tennessee's preferred execution method of lethal injection ‐ an option available to inmates in the state who were convicted of crimes before January 1999. He also became the first blind inmate in U.S. modern history to die by electrocution. A witness to the execution said that Hall's final words were that "people need to learn forgiveness and love and make the world a better place." Old Sparky just did |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Nah, bring them down to Texas, put them in glass jars to back in the Houston Sun. Put the jars someplace nice and public with each jar having a sign listing their crimes. Allow them water but no food. Setup up cameras so people can watch online. I'm sure Vegas will have a betting pool on who winds up crispy first. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-12-06 12:30 |
| #4 He went blind in prison, |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2019-12-06 12:05 |
| #3 Executions should be in a manner that the killer's victim experienced. If it wasn't cruel or unusual for the vic, it's not for the perp. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-06 09:21 |
| #2 Nearly 30 years from conviction to execution. I agree that capital punishment should only be invoked when the facts are absolutely clear, but that;s friggin' ridiculous. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-12-06 07:25 |
| #1 The world is now a slightly better place. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-12-06 07:13 |