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TexasTowelie

(116,744 posts)
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 01:24 AM Aug 2015

Victims’ family objects to death row inmate’s push for cooler temps

Nathaniel Code Jr. lost his right to air conditioning when he terrorized and slaughtered four people in their Shreveport home more than 30 years ago, family members of his victims say.

“Nathaniel Code … he lost all those privileges that you and I have,” said Albert Culbert Jr. “He lost that air conditioning privilege. He lost that. The Culberts, we didn’t put him on death row. He did that when he decided to take my sister’s life, and my brother, my niece, Billy Joe Harris, Deborah Ford, Mr. William, the other two little boys. He did that. And now he’s got nerve enough …”

Culbert trailed off as his sister, Barbara Culbert, spoke.

“How can he say that he’s living under cruel and unusual punishment? What he did to our family? Now that was cruel. That was unusual punishment.”

Read more: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2015/08/16/victims-family-objects-death-row-inmates-push-cooler-temps/31834065/

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Victims’ family objects to death row inmate’s push for cooler temps (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2015 OP
'The fact that Code wants a comfortable existence is salt in their wounds, they say.' Live and Learn Aug 2015 #1
I did not know NOLALady Aug 2015 #2

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)
1. 'The fact that Code wants a comfortable existence is salt in their wounds, they say.'
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 02:43 AM
Aug 2015

He is in prison and on death row. I don't see how that could be the least bit comfortable anyway. Revenge, although an understandable emotion, solves nothing. The heat and humidity in Louisiana can be unbearable and tortuous. Give them some air conditioning.

NOLALady

(4,003 posts)
2. I did not know
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 09:31 AM
Aug 2015

that prison was meant for torture.
Silly me, I had the idea it was meant for reform and rehabilitation.

Of course there's no reform for death row inmates, so I guess the good Christians are correct in their expectation of torture.

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