Texas death row inmate commits suicide on execution day.

[LordMorpheus]

You can't fire me, I quit!

 

[Squisher]

This is why suicide is against the law.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Squisher
This is why suicide is against the law.

yeah DAMN HIM! they should give him the electric chair for that! ...oh wait..

 

[bctbct]

Whats ironic is that the state spends so much effort the last 72 hours to keep you alive so they can kill you.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: bctbct
Whats ironic is that the state spends so much effort the last 72 hours to keep you alive so they can kill you.

From the article:

No other prisoner has killed himself so close to his scheduled execution time. In 1999, a death row inmate took an overdose of prescription drugs. He was hospitalized [and revived], then executed two days later.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_re_us/death_row_suicide_6

LIVINGSTON, Texas - A convicted killer facing lethal injection beat the executioner to it Thursday, committing suicide by slitting his throat and arm with a blade in his Texas death row cell 15 hours before he was supposed to die.

Michael Dewayne Johnson, 29, was found in a pool of blood by officers making routine checks on him every 15 minutes, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The Rock is dead? :Q

 

[Slacker]

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos

Originally posted by: txrandom
Kind of ironic.

if the guards were coming by to announce his pardon then it would be ironic.

how?

situational irony?

Nah, if he killed himself with the key to the cell, that would be ironic.

 

[randay]

Seems a lot more tragic then ironic. 24 dollars of gas resulted in the death of two human beings.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_re_us/death_row_suicide_6

LIVINGSTON, Texas - A convicted killer facing lethal injection beat the executioner to it Thursday, committing suicide by slitting his throat and arm with a blade in his Texas death row cell 15 hours before he was supposed to die.

Michael Dewayne Johnson, 29, was found in a pool of blood by officers making routine checks on him every 15 minutes, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The Rock is dead? :Q

why not? his career was dead years ago!

 

[JulesMaximus]

That's a non-news worthy story AFAIK.

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: randay
Seems a lot more tragic then ironic. 24 dollars of gas resulted in the death of two human beings.

:thumbsup:

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: bctbct
Whats ironic is that the state spends so much effort the last 72 hours to keep you alive so they can kill you.

its about not cheating/escaping justice. not the result.

 

[manlymatt83]

The dude that actually may have done it is free? Wow. That sucks if this was wrongly accused.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
The dude that actually may have done it is free? Wow. That sucks if this was wrongly accused.

Yup. This is why I don't agree with the death penalty, it is very rare that we are 100% certain of guilt.

 

[sygyzy]

Man, slicing your own throat takes a lot of will power.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Squisher
This is why suicide is against the law.

yeah DAMN HIM! they should give him the electric chair for that! ...oh wait..

Oh man. That would do a lot of good.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: bctbct
Whats ironic is that the state spends so much effort the last 72 hours to keep you alive so they can kill you.

yeah, especially since the other dude a year ago or so was hospitalized for drug overdose and released a few days later healthy..... to be executed that night

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
This should highlight why the death penalty doesn't make sense. Death is not a punishment, or else no one would commit suicide as an ESCAPE.

Uh, hello? He commited suicide to avoid being executed. He didnt commit suicide to avoid dying, also that makes no sense since you die anyway when you commit suicide. He probably did it so that his family or whoever wouldnt get to watch him be killed.

That has nothing to do with my point. Death is not a punishment. The person may suffer knowing he's going to die, but then the death is painless, and he ceases to exist. Being dead means you don't suffer for your crimes.