J W Ledford, who stabbed an elderly doctor to death in 1992, told witnesses to his death they could "kiss my white trash ass" after he had polished off [a 5,500-calorie final meal of] filet mignon steak with bacon and pepperjack cheese, fried chicken, pork chops and chicken goujons.Yes...it's a shame that Ledford might have felt the slightest discomfort during his execution.
He had also ordered side dishes including hot chips and a pecan pie with ice cream, and washed it all down with a Sprite.
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His lawyers had asked the parole board to spare him, citing a rough childhood, substance abuse from an early age and his intellectual disability...
[And] [b]ecause of changes in brain chemistry caused by a drug Ledford has been taking for chronic nerve pain for more than a decade, there was a high risk that the pentobarbital Georgia planned to use to execute him would not render him unconscious and devoid of sensation or feeling.
I am against the Death Penalty. Every rule has an exception. For me, putting Ledford to death falls into my "exception" category.