AMERICA EXECUTING A MENTALLY DISABLED MAN IS MORE CHRISTIAN THAN ANY OTHER AMERICAN THING.
HAVING TO EXPLAIN TO A VERY SLOW PERSON WHY THEY'LL BE MURDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT TELLS YOU EVERYTHING.
THE NEXT TIME A MAGA BRAGS ABOUT THEIR "GREAT" COUNTRY OR THEIR "LOVING" JESUS, REMIND THEM OF THIS.
@texasobserver.orgLast week, Texas executed Jamaal Howard, a mentally ill and intellectually disabled man. It was the first since Tennessee's botched killing.
In this piece, his spiritual advisor Jeff Hood describes their final conversations, in which he tried to help Howard understand his fate.
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'I Guess if the Drugs Don’t Work, They’ll Just Shoot Me in the Head'
After a botched execution in Tennessee, Texas is set to kill Jamaal Howard, who has so many mental health problems and intellectual disabilities that he doesn't understand how he will be killed.