A Tennessee inmate on death row says he is on hunger strike over medical care and other issues
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A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of the food, and individual padlocks on cell doors that he says are a safety hazard.
  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
    3·
    23 days ago

    Not eating is about the only control he has. May as well die on your own terms and make a statement for good.

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
    111·
    24 days ago

    What’s a Death Row inmate going to do if they don’t capitulate? Die of starvation? Maybe he’s too dumb to allowed to be left alive.

    • Hazor@lemmy.world
      13·
      24 days ago

      Or maybe he knows he has nothing to lose, so figures he might as well try to call out inhumane conditions in an effort to improve the lot of his peers. Perhaps it is in an effort to attain some measure, however small, of atonement for his wrongdoing.

      Or should he do nothing at all in response to an incompetent nurse giving people the wrong medications and mistreating her patients, the prison having poor fire safety, and the food being inedible?