• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    11 days ago

    the hospital did a CAT scan of little Nikki and found a swollen, bleeding brain believed at the time to be a classic sign of shaken baby syndrome.

    There are, indeed, conditions that will cause a brain to bleed inside the skull. Those conditions don’t explain all the head injuries outside the skull: the hematomas and hemmorhaging between the skin and the skull.

    If you want to argue against the death penalty, go ahead. I lean against it; you don’t have to convince me.

    But we do a disservice to every actual innocent convict when we pretend a guilty man is innocent just to avoid a sentence we abhor.

    If you want to explain the myriad serious head injuries in some way that absolves him of responsibility, I’m listening.