Texas inmate kills self day of execution

[TomInTib]

LIVINGSTON, Texas - A death-row inmate slit his own throat with a makeshift knife early Thursday, committing suicide about 15 hours before he was scheduled to be executed, a prison official said.

Michael Dewayne Johnson, 29, was on death row for the 1995 killing of a convenience store clerk near Waco.

Early Thursday, he slashed his own throat and arm with a makeshift blade fashioned from a small piece of metal attached to a wooden stick, said Michelle Lyons, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville.

Prison guards had been checking on Johnson's welfare every 15 minutes, as is customary, when they found him unresponsive in a pool of blood in his cell, Lyons said. He was taken to a hospital in nearby Livingston, where he was pronounced dead, Lyons said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_re_us/death_row_suicide

[ThomCat]

1. According to the article,

This guy might not have been the killer, and the guy who might be the killer is now free.

You have to love our Criminal Justice System.
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[polmaven]

3. The (R) candidate for Governor in Massachusetts

would call that situation a victory for victims' rights....Not guilty? Well, what has that got to do with anything?

The liberals simply want to coddle prisoners....ya know...with those un-American things like a fair trial with competent representation, and DNA testing.

:grr:

[Swede Atlanta]

2. Culture of Life

We are such bastions of a culture of life