Wait…what?
Brandon Joseph Rhode, a Georgia prisoner on death row, was put to death yesterday via lethal injection for his role in the 1998 slayings of Steven Moss and his two children, Bryan and Kristin.
Rhode was originally slated to be executed on Sept. 21, but earlier that day he attempted suicide by slashing his throat and arms with a razor blade. He was transported to a local hospital, stabilized, and kept in restraints to prevent Rhode from doing any more harm to himself.
Once he was healed up, Rhode was transported back to prison and put to death a week later.
This begs the obvious question—why go to all that trouble to save a condemned man, just so you can execute him a week later? Why not just let him finish the job he started? I’m sure the Georgia taxpayers would have preferred they had done that, of that I’m sure.
