The impending execution of a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the state’s Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia. https://to.pbs.org/45FZlMl
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Sadly dementia is its own kind of death.
aug 30, 2025, 2:10 am • 0 0 • view
You don’t say his he Jeffrey dahmer or something 😒
aug 30, 2025, 1:05 am • 2 0 • view
In order for an execution to proceed the criminal must understand the reason he or she is being executed. The legal process involves a psychologist assessing to see if the criminal is fit for execution by psychological standards. If the criminal does not understand then he/she cannot be executed.
aug 30, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
Did he have dementia when he committed the crime?
aug 30, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
so he should live out his confused life in a cell-not knowing his family-being angry or paranoid all the time?as a daughter whose mother has dementia I donot believe the Supreme Court was being more humane! Plus dementia or not he should pay for crime he committed. Court should stay out of it!
aug 30, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
12 murder conspirators walked free & the one they wanted to kill is now unable to *really* feel the pain... so, don't bother. Proud of yourselves, Utah?
aug 30, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
My God. Thank God. What are we doing here, people?
aug 30, 2025, 1:10 am • 2 0 • view
So, instead, the system gets to hang on to him longer and collect more money from his imprisonment. To me that is cruel. He chose his death when he was of sound mind, dementia shouldn't excuse him. Why take so long to begin with?
aug 30, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
The dementia angle is about excusing us; not him.
aug 30, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Death isn't such a bad thing. 37 years of being a prisoner with death looming over his head is more inhumane, in my opinion.
sep 1, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
Humamity.
aug 30, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
Firing squad🤯
aug 30, 2025, 11:04 am • 0 0 • view
Abolish the death penalty.
aug 30, 2025, 1:04 am • 10 1 • view