8 May 2025: "Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart"

[CountDC]

Saw a story today that may or may not be true but was interesting (really can't remember if it was news or a show clip). Husband noticed his morning coffee started tasting a bit different and wife wasn't acting the same. He installed a camera which caught her adding bleach to the water the coffee was made from. She was attempting to slowly kill him rather than file for divorce so she could get everything and was charged with attempted manslaughter. If successful I would think this is a perfect case for execution consideration as premed murder. She could have walked and instead decided to kill.

 

[Blackadder1916]

Saw a story today that may or may not be true but was interesting (really can't remember if it was news or a show clip). Husband noticed his morning coffee started tasting a bit different and wife wasn't acting the same. He installed a camera which caught her adding bleach to the water the coffee was made from. She was attempting to slowly kill him rather than file for divorce so she could get everything and was charged with attempted manslaughter. If successful I would think this is a perfect case for execution consideration as premed murder. She could have walked and instead decided to kill.

USAF, started while they were posted to Germany, husband waited until they repatted to report it.

US woman charged with concealing bleach in husband’s coffee avoids jail

Melody Feliciano Johnson, initially charged in Arizona with attempted murder, receives probation after striking plea deal

www.theguardian.com

edited to add

If bleach was in the old man's coffee, did she have the OMO detergent box in the window?

 

[Blackadder1916]

Saw a story today that may or may not be true but was interesting (really can't remember if it was news or a show clip). Husband noticed his morning coffee started tasting a bit different and wife wasn't acting the same. He installed a camera which caught her adding bleach to the water the coffee was made from. She was attempting to slowly kill him rather than file for divorce so she could get everything and was charged with attempted manslaughter. If successful I would think this is a perfect case for execution consideration as premed murder. She could have walked and instead decided to kill.

While the wife intended to kill the husband, she probably picked the least effective method of poisoning. With no details about the amount of bleach she was adding to the coffee water, it's only assumption that the quantity was not enough to cause any immediate health concerns. And as chlorine wouldn't accumulate in the body like other toxins, hoping the victim eventually kicks off would be the same as waiting for millions of tap water drinking city dwellers to drop dead. It's possible that some of us old farts whose water source on ex/ops predated ROWPUs ingested chlorine disinfected water in greater ppm than the airman whose coffee tasted different in the morning. The taste difference may have been especially noticeable since the Germans don't typically use chlorine as the primary disinfection method in their water treatment plants. I don't know how many cups of chlorine with my coffee I had on WAINCONs in the 70s before the taste of superchlorinated water buffalos (supposed to be done before ex to clean them) disapated.

 

[CountDC]

I don't know how many cups of chlorine with my coffee I had on WAINCONs in the 70s before the taste of superchlorinated water buffalos (supposed to be done before ex to clean them) disapated.

The buffalo I had on ex took 3 full loads before the taste was gone.

 

[KevinB]

The buffalo I had on ex took 3 full loads before the taste was gone.

I always like that taste as it meant the mold was gone.

 

[CountDC]

Good point. It certainly came into play with the first one they gave me. It had no lid on it. Went to refill it at the water point and talked to them. They asked if I would like to have it exchanged as they could make it happen. Naturally I said yes, they reported it as NS due to health concerns of contamination and I received a nice new one heavily bleached.

 

[Jarnhamar]

To quote the great Sir William Blackstone, one of our common-law's great jurists, "is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

I'd guess Sir William didn't take into consideration those 10 guilty persons escaping and going on to commiting multiple murders of other innocent people.

Yes I'm ok with it in theory, but until you can 100% guarantee that we're not going to kill an innocent person then we shouldn't do it.

Police get called on people to help them and sometimes end up killing them.

 

[OldSolduer]

The buffalo I had on ex took 3 full loads before the taste was gone.

The issue with that is they often used too much chlorine. You need about a coke can for 500 gallons - or that is what I was told.