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Tennessee executes Lee Hall by electric chair
CBS News ^ | 12-05-2019 | AP

Posted on 12/05/2019 6:56:38 PM PST by NRx

A blind prisoner convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend by setting her on fire in her car was put to death Thursday in Tennessee's electric chair. Lee Hall, 53, became only the second inmate without sight to be executed in the U.S. since the reinstatement of the nation's death penalty in 1976.

Hall was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at a Nashville maximum-security prison, prison officials said. He chose the electric chair over Tennessee's preferred execution method of lethal injection — an option available to inmates in the state who were convicted of crimes before January 1999. He also became the first blind inmate in U.S. modern history to die by electrocution.

A witness to the execution said that Hall's final words were that "people need to learn forgiveness and love and make the world a better place..."

...Court documents state that Hall killed 22-year-old Traci Crozier on April 17, 1991 by setting her car ablaze with a container of gasoline that he lit and tossed in her vehicle while she was inside and trying to leave him. The container exploded and Crozier suffered burns across more than 90% of her body, dying the next day in the hospital.

Crozier's sister, Staci Wooten, and her father, Gene Crozier, had said earlier they planned to watch Hall's execution.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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Old Smokey... Tennessee's electric chair.

1 posted on 12/05/2019 6:56:38 PM PST by NRx
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To: NRx

Wonderful its nice when executions can be green and not use gas


2 posted on 12/05/2019 6:57:42 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: NRx

If he had been positioned between the poles of a large magnet, an actual Hall effect potential might have been measurable.


3 posted on 12/05/2019 6:58:43 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: al baby

It’s nice when the family of the victim can SURVIVE until justice is brought.

Geez I was 23 when this happened!!!!

That’s ridiculous.

But at least it happened.


4 posted on 12/05/2019 7:00:21 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: al baby

I would prefer they mandate gas - nitrogen, more specifically. Completely undercuts the anti-death penalty nitwits that it is COMPLETELY painless - though in my humble opinion, death penalty inmates should be put to death by the exact same method that got them there in the first place.


5 posted on 12/05/2019 7:01:27 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: NRx

Adios, m*****f*****.

L


6 posted on 12/05/2019 7:01:56 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: NRx

Hmmm, so THAT’S why the lights flickered for a few seconds at supper...


7 posted on 12/05/2019 7:02:40 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: Spacetrucker

“I would prefer they mandate gas - nitrogen, more specifically.”

I’ve been saying that for years.

L


8 posted on 12/05/2019 7:03:21 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: NRx

When Florida used the electric chair, the condemned prisoner was said to “ride the lightening.”


9 posted on 12/05/2019 7:04:26 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Lurker

Why isn’t Tennessee using Tesla batteries to execute their criminals? They’re free.


10 posted on 12/05/2019 7:06:17 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: NRx

11 posted on 12/05/2019 7:08:17 PM PST by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: NRx

Never saw it coming...


12 posted on 12/05/2019 7:10:00 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: NRx

1991 this happened? and he’s just being executed NOW???

28 years is too long


13 posted on 12/05/2019 7:11:05 PM PST by Mr. K
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To: al baby

Wood chipper.


14 posted on 12/05/2019 7:22:32 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: NRx

15 posted on 12/05/2019 7:25:15 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: NRx

What a horrid manner of death that young woman suffered. He got off easy.


16 posted on 12/05/2019 7:27:17 PM PST by Robwin (very)
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To: NRx

Only took 28 years.


17 posted on 12/05/2019 7:32:14 PM PST by conservative98
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I wonder what his lack of eyesight has to do with it. He is a murderer.


18 posted on 12/05/2019 7:36:21 PM PST by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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Exactly. They don’t care about the victim.


19 posted on 12/05/2019 7:40:01 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep)
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To: Carl Vehse

on the field during Super Bowl halftime.


20 posted on 12/05/2019 7:40:06 PM PST by meatloaf
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