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Thursday, December 15, 2022

AP seeks to protect access to records of death row inmate who severed penis

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Associated Press has filed a motion seeking to protect public access to records detailing the treatment of a Tennessee death row inmate who cut off his penis while on suicide watch.

Henry Hodges has accused the state of cruel and unusual punishment for keeping him tied down with restraints on a thin vinyl mattress over a concrete slab after his return from the hospital, where surgeons reattached his penis. He was immobilized — at one point for six hours straight — despite discharge orders from Vanderbilt University Medical Center that he avoid sitting for more than two hours at a time, according to court filings, which don’t mention whether that also includes lying down.

8 comments:

  1. I think I commented earlier about an inmate that kept doing things to require hospitalization, just to make the state pay extra money for locking him up. His last trip to the hospital had him kept in 4 point restraint PLUS a belt around the midsection. He got himself so wound up that an adrenaline overload stopped his heart, and they couldn't revive him.

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  2. Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet.

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  3. Maybe he was self transitioning into John Bobbitt.

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    1. JohnBoy and Billy "The Bobbit Sleeps Tonite"

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  4. woulda been a lot better and easier if he woulda sliced his throat and bled to death...now, someone's gotta pay to keep him alive until they can kill him...seems sorta stupid to me...

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  5. Next inmate that does this..let them bleed out. Simple.

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  6. He's Russian and his real name is Henry Dickov.

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  7. Ultimate oxymoronic statement: Suicide watch for a death row inmate!

    Jeffrey Epstein did not chop off his dick.

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