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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No, they induced a coma so they could save him by putting in a feeding tube without him tearing it out. They would have served us better by doing nothing and not wasting our tax dollars on the monster.
I watched the coverage of his trial on InSession. Cameras were not allowed in the court room, but there were reporters in the court room who reported the testimony.
This pervert not only “married” 12 year old girls, but he raped his nieces who were around 6 or 7 when it happened.
He also raped his pre-teen nephews.
He broke up over 300 families — sending the wives to other husbands.
He had 79 wives, a quarter of whom where underage.
He had everyone living in the compound bring their pet dog to him and he killed the pet, or had someone else do it by slashing their throats.
He had underage girls participate in group sex acts in the baptismal.
When he was caught, he had a tape of himself raping a 12 year old, in his car.
I am not making this up. This monster deserves to die a LONG, PAINFUL death, however the Spirit living within me tells me to pray for him to repent and ask Christ for forgiveness.
Hence the caveat. I suspect this is a disgruntled supporter trying to inject some slander and hopes it goes viral.
Maybe he turned Muslim and thought it was still Ramadan???
Well then he's doing it wrong, since you can eat after the sun goes down, during Ramadan.
This is Jeffs manipulating the cult by any means necessary to keep them believing he is another mormon prophet in the manner of Joseph Smith. I'm sure there is a power play ongoing within the FLDS over who will take Jeffs place, and he is determined to rule from prison. This is a play for sympathy for him and a way to undercut any successor.
I’d rather see him suffer for another 30 years but the flip side is having to spend tax money to house him.
Yes, I hadn’t thought of that...3 days without water...could put you in a coma...I am surprised the Prison system didn’t watch that closer...the water intake.
Three day fast - coma - BS.
Yep. And I will not mourn his passing.
I will mourn yet another nail in the coffin of legal proceedings.
I would have absolutely no problem with a person being executed, provided they got a fair and honest trial, conviction and sentence.
I do have a major problem with someone who is politically inconvenient being ‘Jim McDougaled’ by deliberate medical malpractice, that crosses the line between justice and totalitarian revenge/murder.
It’s a very slippery slope, allowing one’s enemies to be liquidated by the state. The state has no friends, save its own raw power.
Then, if the three-day period is correct, realize that the article doesn't say whether fasting means abstaining from food or abstaining from food and water.
In wilderness survival classes, you are taught the Rule of Threes. That is, you can live:
Does Jeffs perhaps have a medical problem like diabetes which would have made a 3-day fast inadvisable and dangerous, so that the PTB felt they had to take action?
I could see the prison admins being reluctant to be part of the creation of a martyr. It’s usually not good for one’s career.
That does not mean I am comfortable with his being murdered by the State, two wrongs and all that.
Besides there is the dangerous precedent of passively allowing the State to arbitrarily end a life, without due process.
Don’t induce coma, if he wants to kill himself, let him.
Bobby Sands was a political prisoner making a statement and sacrifice for his country. Not some evil POS child molester. How about lets compare Warren Jeffs to say Charles Manson. Yeh that sounds about right.
Manson. The first major victory in the war on the death penalty.
*sigh*
Bullocks!
Tube feeding would be a reason to induce the coma.
Three days does not seem like a long time. But he’s been not eating or drinking. Humans can exist for several weeks without food, however after several days without water he could be suffering from a series of issues any of which could cause a coma.
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