Carter Wrenn posted on June 12, 2012 10:40
Danny Hembree, who killed a 17-year-old girl, proved that in addition to being a murderer he’s a fool, writing his local newspaper, describing himself sitting on death row as ‘a gentleman of leisure, watching color TV, and eating three well-balanced meals a day,’ and then, boasting how he’ll file decades of appeals before he gets anywhere near the gas chamber at Central Prison, added, ‘Kill me if you can, suckers.’
Hembree’s tear got him locked in solitary confinement where he’s not watching color TV or much of anything else except four walls, but it also sent Representative Tim Moore on a tear of his own – Moore went to Raleigh and introduced a bill to ban TV for every prisoner on death row and then told legislators if there was anything else they could come up with to make death row a more unpleasant place they ought to do it – so, in the end, if Hembree proved anything he proved the old saying ‘harsh words breed malice’ is as true today as it was two thousand years ago.