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After 30 years in prison: 6 hours before the lethal injection, Jimmy Fletcher Meders’ life was saved.
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10 chicken wings. 2 cheeseburgers with bacon. French fries. Soda. A scoop of vanilla ice cream. The last meal Jimmy Flecher Meders (58) was supposed to eat in his life was all set. The lethal injection was waiting for the convicted murderer on Thursday. But it did not get to that.
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Supermarket staff murdered
In 1987, Meders went on a booze tour with three men in the state of Georgia. The four entered a small supermarket in the middle of the night. There they stole $ 38 – and killed the supermarket clerk with one shot. Who fired the shot was never clarified, the men blamed each other. But Meders was the only one convicted.
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He has been in jail for 30 years. And then the big surprise! The Georgian probation authority decided only six hours before the execution of his death sentence that Meder’s sentence should be converted into a life sentence. They gave his background as reason.
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A sample prisoner
So Meders was hardly criminally suspicious before the murder and also acted behind bars like a model prisoner. That saved his life now. The chicken wings therefore had to be eaten by someone else. (VOF)
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