Posted on 08/29/2011 11:09:30 AM PDT by Zakeet
Warren Jeffs, the polygamous sect leader and convicted child rapist, is in a coma and may not survive, a source close to Jeffs tells ABC News.
Jeffs, 55, had been fasting for the past three days and became so weak that doctors at the Texas prison where he is serving a life sentence induced a coma, according to the source.
The leader of a radical polygamist sect of Mormonism known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), Jeffs is scheduled to go on trial a second time in October to face charges of first-degree bigamy. Conviction would be punishable by up to 99 years or life in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.
Jeffs was moved last Tuesday to a solitary cell at the Powledge Unit in Palestine, Texas, because of the large amount of media coverage surrounding his case, prison officials said.
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Unless he’s fasting from water too. No water will cause death much sooner; although in a coma after three days sounds very unlikely unless he was extremely malnourished already.
My guess is there is a difference between sedating and inducing a coma. YMMV.
Put a plastic bag over his head to aide his breathing.
If this is how it went down then they got some real problems. You don’t induce a coma except in very extreme circumstances, and I don’t think three days of fasting qualifies.
awww, I am torn, pump some fluids into him and force him to live, or just let him go.....justice either way, cheaper to let him go.....such a dilemma.
If he also denied himself water over those same three days, then maybe.
Bobby Sands lasted about 60 days.
So you can stick a tube down his throat and feed him and hydrate him without him fighting or causing trauma. Now why the state of Texas should want to incur the expense, boggles the mind!
The heart, soul, and essence of ObamaCare.
I sure hope he is suffering mightily
Typically when a person fasts, or someone goes on a hunger strike, they continue to ingest fluids.
Three days without hydration is very dangerous, three days without nutrition usually isn't.
If they can induce a coma against his will then I would think they could also insert an IV against his will.
And he IS going to die on their watch, it's just a question of when.
Good question. Almost like an "assisted suicide".
His pervo deluded cult gets their martyr that much sooner.
But I do agree sumpin’ ain’t right here. *sniff*
Just heard on local radio that he was hospitalized in Tyler due to this “hunger strike”. Wrong place for him to get much sympathy.
Turn him back into General Population, hunger will be the least of his worries.
Morrow said the WORST thing Perry ever did was to prosecute Jeffs.
We need no better reason to support Perry than this.
“source close to Jeffs” pretty much means this is crap
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