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Man cries out in pain as he’s executed
A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain as he was executed after the state refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator. 69-year old Byron Black was put to death on Tuesday by lethal injection. He was convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her two young daughters in 1988.
The penalty was carried out despite a legal battle over concerns that Black’s defibrillator implant would repeatedly shock him once the lethal chemicals spread through his body.
As he lay with his hands and chest restrained he was moaning, “oh it’s hurting so bad.”
He was declared dead ten minutes after the injection was administered.
Black’s lawyer promised to investigate – saying that the drug was not acting the way Tennessee state experts said it would.
Clintons subpoenaed in House Epstein case
A fresh round of subpoenas has been issued in the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein saga.
The Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee is compelling the testimony of nearly a dozen former federal officials and politicians including Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Committee chair James Comer included a letter with the former president’s subpoena which reads in part, “By your own admission, you flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane four separate times in 2002 and 2003. During one of these trips, you were even pictured receiving a ‘massage’ from one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.”
Following Epstein’s arrest on sex trafficking in 2019, Clinton told Newsweek he had “not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade” and said he knew nothing about his crimes.
President Trump, a former friend of Epstein who broke off contact with the financier before his legal troubles began, had much the same reaction after the now-deceased financier’s crimes became public.
The subpoenas requested Hillary Clinton to appear on October 9th and Bill Clinton on October 14th.
Big bad wolf no match for Scarlett Johansson
The US Department of Agriculture is always looking for new ways to help American ranchers protect their cattle from wolves.
Drones have of course started to play a huge role, because why not? They use infrared cameras to find wolves lurking around looking for a tasty rib-eye.
But how do you scare them away from the cows?
With Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver.
The Wall Street Journal first reported that these wolf drones scare off the predators with alarming sounds blasting from drones equipped with speakers – sounds like fireworks, gunshots, and people arguing.
For “people arguing” the good folks at the Agriculture Department like to use audio from Driver and Johannson’s argument in the film “Marriage Story” about a brutal divorce.
Apparently AC/DC’s song Thunderstruck also works well.
The program began as a way to mitigate the wolf problem without shooting and killing them. The American gray wolf is an endangered species.
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