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TN executes blind man for killing ex-girlfriend in 1991 - He should have seen it coming
[CBS News] A blind prisoner convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend by setting her on fire in her car was put to death Thursday in Tennessee's electric chair. Lee Hall, 53, became only the second inmate without sight to be executed in the U.S. since the reinstatement of the nation's death penalty in 1976.Hall was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at a Nashville maximum-security prison, prison officials said. He chose the electric chair over Tennessee's preferred execution method of lethal injection ‐ an option available to inmates in the state who were convicted of crimes before January 1999. He also became the first blind inmate in U.S. modern history to die by electrocution. A witness to the execution said that Hall's final words were that "people need to learn forgiveness and love and make the world a better place." Old Sparky just did Posted by: Besoeker 2019-12-06 |
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