I don’t know how people are proud Texans. Seems like everyone in that state is angry and ignorant. Killing people just to prove to no one else they can kill people.
sigwinch•24m ago
This can’t happen without Paxton.
vorpalhex•22m ago
The guy:
+ Went to jail for abusing his kids and wife
+ Got out, was arrested for beating his pregnant wife again
+ Got charged again for beating a kid
+ Showed up at a hospital with a dead kid claiming she fell to death from a bed
The kid who died had detached retinas, bruises and scrapes all over her shoulders and heads, and died of a hit to the head so severe her brain swelled.
The defense and Innonce Projects claim is that this could have been caused by.. the hospital giving aid.
And every court has ruled that this defense is entirely unreasonable and unlikely.
The girl was TWO YEARS old. She was beaten black and blue. She had a history of being beaten black and blue by a man who had a history of beating people.
Sorry, he is no longer fit to live in civilized society. His fellow citizens request he be removed before he can beat yet another person.
kashunstva•11m ago
The capital murder conviction was based on postmortem findings that were regarded as pathognomonic of shaken baby syndrome and those signs are no longer considered reliable. The detective who led the original investigation now believes the man is innocent of the particular crime for which he faces execution. If the detective, with access to far more particulars in this case than any of us here is willing to say the pause button should be pressed, it’s worth re-examining.
vorpalhex•4m ago
The girls brain swelled until she died.
We really aren't debating the finer points of shaken baby syndrome. The girl was a toddler.
Two year olds don't die from falling out of bed. Not with detached retinas, scrapes on their shoulders and so on.
mlyle•9m ago
> Went to jail for abusing his kids and wife
> Got out, was arrested for beating his pregnant wife again
> Got charged again for beating a kid
This, as best as I can tell, is false. There was testimony from his ex-wife about violence during his murder trial, which is very different from your claims. His prior convictions were for writing bad checks and burglary; the sources I have read claim he has no violence in his prior criminal history.
Can you please substantiate what you are saying with a reliable source? Alternatively, can you retract the apparent falsehoods you're saying here?
(Not going to rebut the later stuff, which indeed are the facts in question on appeal).
kashunstva•20m ago
Sadly, irrespective of the merits of this man’s legal appeal, if the jurisdiction is Texas, his fate is probably sealed.
righthand•38m ago
sigwinch•24m ago
vorpalhex•22m ago
+ Went to jail for abusing his kids and wife
+ Got out, was arrested for beating his pregnant wife again
+ Got charged again for beating a kid
+ Showed up at a hospital with a dead kid claiming she fell to death from a bed
The kid who died had detached retinas, bruises and scrapes all over her shoulders and heads, and died of a hit to the head so severe her brain swelled.
The defense and Innonce Projects claim is that this could have been caused by.. the hospital giving aid.
And every court has ruled that this defense is entirely unreasonable and unlikely.
The girl was TWO YEARS old. She was beaten black and blue. She had a history of being beaten black and blue by a man who had a history of beating people.
Sorry, he is no longer fit to live in civilized society. His fellow citizens request he be removed before he can beat yet another person.
kashunstva•11m ago
vorpalhex•4m ago
We really aren't debating the finer points of shaken baby syndrome. The girl was a toddler.
Two year olds don't die from falling out of bed. Not with detached retinas, scrapes on their shoulders and so on.
mlyle•9m ago
> Got out, was arrested for beating his pregnant wife again
> Got charged again for beating a kid
This, as best as I can tell, is false. There was testimony from his ex-wife about violence during his murder trial, which is very different from your claims. His prior convictions were for writing bad checks and burglary; the sources I have read claim he has no violence in his prior criminal history.
Can you please substantiate what you are saying with a reliable source? Alternatively, can you retract the apparent falsehoods you're saying here?
(Not going to rebut the later stuff, which indeed are the facts in question on appeal).