“Somebody needs to tell the governor the justice system doesn’t work,” he said. “He’s the last word and the last person to give justice where justice is needed. Too many innocent people are being killed.”
Smith suggested the governor “quit” and “get a backbone.”
He was administered a lethal injection of pentobarbital, a barbiturate, minutes later and was declared dead at 10:47 a.m.
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He did what now?
Error aside, that’s not how you write about stuff like this with no witnesses. You say he was found guilty of the crime, not that he did it for sure.
Except he was tried and convicted. According to our laws that means that he did it. This is the correct way to write about it, whether it is accurate or not.
A good sprinkling of pronouns to piss off the right, lol