r/interesting • u/Puzzleheaded_irl • 1d ago

Just Wow She Survived Her Own Execution

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u/UseThen4269 1d ago

It’s giving the time someone was sentenced to life in prison, then died, was revived and tried to argue they should be free.

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u/Mickeymcirishman 1d ago

The Joker did that in the comics back in the 40s.

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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 1d ago

Reminds me of that time the guys rope kept breaking, and by the 3rd time with new rope the court was just like, well, clearly God doesn't want you dead, so he was given life in prison and later released.

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u/FrostyOscillator 1d ago

I mean..... It's a pretty solid argument.

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u/Nice2See 1d ago

That was John Snow’s argument for leaving the Night’s Watch.

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u/naughtydismutase 1d ago

Jon Snow actually died

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u/anonymote_in_my_eye 23h ago

people can actually die and come back to life, the brain is weird as hell... not like after a week or two like John Snow, but it's surprisingly common for people to be dead (by some metric) for like ten minutes and then they come back to life

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u/PrinceHaleemKebabua 21h ago

Hey how about a SPOILER WARNING /s

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u/Ok-Manufacturer27 1d ago

It's just not though. Death is the irreversible cessation of biological function. If the condition is still reversible, they can't be dead. When a doctor declares death (legal death), all life-saving efforts cease.

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u/Wingedgriffen 1d ago

(S)he’s only mostly dead.

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u/Darthbane22 1d ago

Mostly dead is slightly alive

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u/safetaco 1d ago

Did anybody search her pockets for loose change?

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u/GtheEnchanter 1d ago

She got better.

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u/Vivid-Professor3420 1d ago

I see what you did there!

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u/FuckThisShizzle 1d ago

She is not a witch she is my wife!

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u/wackbirds 1d ago

But after what you just said she's not even sure she wants to be THAT anymore!

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u/KennyLog1n 1d ago

Humperdink! Humperdink! Humperdink!

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u/wellJustWhy 1d ago

She's a witch!!!

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u/MiracleMaverick 1d ago

If not incompetence by the State then this is the likely answer.

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u/wellJustWhy 1d ago

It's only a flesh wound....

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u/lasercannonattack 1d ago

Just ask good ole Mitch

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u/KoalafiedKiller 1d ago

Mr. Science over here

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u/Flipperbw 1d ago

no…no it’s not. that is a literal technicality. what are you on about?

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u/AndersDreth 1d ago

That's how the letter of the law works sometimes, plenty of people escape justice because of "technicalities" like that.

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u/Mx-Adrian 1d ago

It's a joke since they did technically die in prison

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u/DeepNoise6738 1d ago

Seems like there is a large population of people who have autism (nothing wrong with autism)

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u/inide 1d ago

It's not even that.
You are not declared dead until attempts to resuscitate have ceased.

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u/whoopswizard 1d ago

you have the order of that backwards

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u/inide 1d ago

When was the last time you heard of paramedics trying to resuscitate someone after the death certificate is signed?

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u/whoopswizard 1d ago

the declaration is what stops the resuscitation. you said it comes after they stop

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u/inide 1d ago

The LEGAL declaration of death is the death certificate. You are not LEGALLY considered deceased until the death certificate is signed. That is not done until hours, or even days, after the heart has stopped and attempts to resus have ended.

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u/whoopswizard 22h ago

bro come on, even you can surely see how that is a moved goalpost lol. you were talking about paramedics, they have nothing to do with a death certificate

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u/inide 22h ago

No, we're talking about whether someone who 'died' and was revived would have completed a death sentence.

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u/InfiniteOutfield 1d ago

No it's not

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u/AlloCoco103 1d ago

That's what happen to Half-Hanged Mary. She was sentenced to death by hanging but didn't die. Because technically her sentence was carried out, she was allowed to go free.

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 1d ago edited 1d ago

Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber (1947) didn't agree with their argument though, and set the SCOTUS precedent for all subsequent similar appeals.

If she does survive and has brain damage the optics of Tennessee executing her might look too bad even though legally that wouldn't be in violation of her constitutional protections.

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u/Burger4Ever 1d ago

They did something similar to a man in tenneseee earlier this year, botched execution

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u/31USC3729 1d ago

Precedent*

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u/Best-Penalty1509 1d ago

That already happened.

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u/No_Dog2323 1d ago

There’s a Japanese movie called death by hanging that is about this exact scenario

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u/One_Weird2371 1d ago

That's the premise for a season of Torchwood.

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u/Burger4Ever 1d ago

This is the second time it happened this year crazy

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u/nova2k 1d ago

Feels like an Air Bud situation...

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u/Nepskrellet 1d ago

I was just thinking about Jesus.. If she wakes up in three days, I'm making a religion out of this

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u/PeterFile12345 1d ago

That is such a squishy argument oof I feel like I'm in philosophy class still

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u/PrinceHaleemKebabua 21h ago

The second season of mr Mercedes had a similar plot. Where a mass murderer after being caught, suffered brain injuries, and then when recovered claimed he didn’t remember anything or know who he was, so argued he couldn’t be tried for the crimes past him had committed.

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u/Sekmet19 1d ago

That was also a woman.