@Irish_Fox_Hound You see a young woman crying for her mama and feel empathy. I see a young woman crying for herself & see someone who spent 45 solid minutes cutting and slicing through living flesh and ignoring pleas for mercy. To then pick a piece of skull out of a brain & take it as a souvenir
@Irish_Fox_Hound The appropriate punishment would be having her throat cut six times, being stabbed & cut over 300 times, having a pentagram carved in her chest, & having her face & skull crushed into her brain with a chunk of asphalt. The difference is she actually earned that. Colleen didn't.
@cathyrusson Strada needs to be investigated. A deep look into him financially & ideologically bc he oversaw several botched executions in Arizona. It wouldn't be surprising to find out he has ties to anti DP lobbyists. Twice could be unlucky or incompetent. Five times is not accidental.
@Irish_Fox_Hound Nonsense. The courts at the time had multiple psych doctors evaluate and test her. Her IQ tested at 111. It's all on record. They should have executed her 20 years ago. Any savage who tortures, mutilates and crushes someone's skull deserves much worse than what she received.
@RBianchiEsq Her crime was committed prior to January 1st, 1999, meaning Tennessee allowed her to make the choice of electrocution or lethal injection.
@Irish_Fox_Hound Her IQ was 111, in the 77th percentile at the time. A day before the murder she told a friend she was going to kill Colleen Slemmer because she "had just felt mean that day." The next day she took a meat cleaver & boxcutter and she did exactly that. Her early life is irrelevant.
@Lillyin_London Is it like having your throat cut six times, being beaten, cut and stabbed over 300 times, having a pentagram carved in your chest, and having your skull and face caved in with a chunk of asphalt to the point of needing dental records to identify what's left of you bad or nah?
@akeem525 This was a human error. Either by the compounding pharmacist, the staff who placed the needle, or the person responsible for not forcing hydration. TN should start using guillotine. It's effective and sends an unmistakable message. Regardless the death sentence will be executed.
We live in an interesting country where verified suicides are reported as lynchings and a guy getting beheaded in a public park is not reported at all.
I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
There is very little clear footage of flight 11 flying over manhattan and striking the north tower. Practically none exists in fact.
But we have Jules Naudet’s footage, that not only captures this rare event, but actually follows firemen into those very towers that ultimately became perhaps the most famous unintended film and documentary ever created.
Jules is tagging along with batallion chief Joseph pfeifer as they respond to a mundane gas leak call at church and lispenard.
The firsr couple minutes is pretty boring, regular Tuesday morning work. Beautiful sunny day, twin towers in the background.
Until 1 min 45 sec into the footage can you can an unusually low jetliner flying directly over manhattan. Everyone looks up in confusion, and what they see next changed America forever.
This level of disrespect is incomprehensible.
As the names of Americans murdered on September 11th are read aloud at Ground Zero, AOC and Mamdani are laughing and smiling together.
There is a time and a place for politics. This isn’t it.
Ground Zero is sacred ground.
Those names belong to fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, firefighters, cops, and innocent Americans who went to work one morning and never came home.
For a few hours, on one day, have some damn respect.
September 11th is not a photo op.
It is not a networking event.
It is a funeral America has attended for 25 years.