You just can’t make this stuff up. No one would believe it. Luckily, Fox News was there to record the insane details:
Officials say an Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch.
Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds Jr., who admitted taking an overdose of medication prescribed to him, arrived at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown shortly after noon on Tuesday.
Walburn says Reynolds is isolated from other inmates and under constant observation.
Reynolds was treated at a Youngstown hospital after he was found unconscious in his death row cell Sunday night.
The type of drug he used and why it was prescribed aren’t being disclosed. How he accumulated the pills is under investigation.
Reynolds’ execution for the 1994 murder of his neighbor near Akron has been rescheduled to next week.
In summation: a guy who is hours away from being executed tries to kill himself. The state spends thousands of tax dollars to save his worthless life so they can turn around and spend millions of additional tax dollars to execute him.
Where the hell is Dr. Kevorkian when we need him?
Source: FoxNews.com
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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You know......I think we should give those condemned a chance to off themselves. Either way, they're going to meet their creator.
We are a compassionate country. I get it. But yeah this does border on the ridiculous. Compared to countries where a child's hand is run over with a car because he stole bread (which actually happens in countries like Iran), the states that practice the death penalty need to not be afraid of the human rights groups (who should concentrate on the human rights violations happening in places like Iran). I think the US states that practice the death penalty are trying to overcompensate to avoid negativity. If the man wanted to die let him die. He was found guilty by his peers or a judge. It was time to pay society back, if he didnt want to go the injection route then just let him be. Overall we save money and time. Saving him to them kill him makes no sense to me. It really doesn't, even though I am feeling the whole compassionate thing sometimes it is misplaced.
You have to wonder why they disinfect the arm before they stick the needle in, too. Like the guy's going to get post-mortem infection?