In this story, an elderly California death-row inmate had requested prison officials let him die if he suffered another heart attack before his execution.
Sayeth the prison official:
"At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life," said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon. "We would resuscitate him," then execute him.
Only in America.
BTW, it took two lethal injections to finish this guy off, who had recently lost his petition for clemency arguing that he was too old and feeble to be executed.
2 comments:
The whole thing kind of reminded me of that scene in Paths of Glory, where they had to resuscitate a soldier just before they executed him via firing squad.
Yeah, but it only took one bullet to kill that guy!
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