Posted on 10/19/2022 10:36:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Wednesday for an inmate who argued her attorneys didn’t properly raise in her defense trauma she experienced, including gender dysphoria.
The court ruled 6-1 to uphold Victoria Drain’s conviction and death sentence in the 2019 beating death of Christopher Richardson, a fellow inmate in the residential treatment unit at Warren Correctional Institution in southwestern Ohio.
Drain killed Richardson by beating, stabbing and strangling him, according to court records.
Drain had been placed on the unit, which provides inmate psychiatric services, “due to her attempt to self-castrate because she is transgender,” Drain’s attorneys said in a court filing in March 2021.
In their Supreme Court filing, Drain’s attorneys presented evidence of self-harm dating to childhood because of gender dysphoria, or the distress felt when someone’s gender expression does not match their gender identity. Attorneys describe Drain as a transwoman in court documents.
Drain’s attorneys on her appeal countered that her original lawyers didn’t investigate the connection between her gender dysphoria and her mental health and acts of self-harm.
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“..due to her attempts to self-castrate”
Everybody calling him a “she” are the ones who need “psychiatric services”.
Hang him. Well, OK, so I’m an old softy. Hang her.
Why don’t they compromise - execute him/her by cutting of his/her penis and letting him/her bleed out?
Can still accommodate his gender dysphoria.
Fine - now get rid of the one dissenter judge.
Didn’t see in the article why he killed the other prisoner - might be a twofer.
“Would Lorainea Bobbitt please pick up the hotel courtesy phone?”
We’re all upside down. The article keeps referring to the dirtbag as “she” and “her” all the while failing to explain how and why he had a male cell mate.
I thought this was a “she” until I got to the “self castrate” part. That is one F-ed up dude.
To paraphrase Areatha Franklin:
Strumming her pain with his fingers
Singing her life with his words
Hanging her softly by his balls,
Hanging softly, with his balls,
Telling her whole life with his words
Hanging her softly,
With his schlong
It is a “he”. He has a set of balls and pecker. Females [women] don’t have those.
I believe that was Carole King.
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Roberta Flack Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words Killing me softly with his song Killing me softly with his song…
So. The state is willing to remedy 'her' self-harm need and end 'her' dysphoria once and for all.
What's the problem here?
I whole heartedly agree. There is nothing wrong with him. it is those who keep saying, “It’s a woman. Women don’t have balls and tally whackers.
My mistake. Thanks for the correction.
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Some background on this.
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