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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:12 PM Aug 2013

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Transgender Woman's Manhattan Death Ruled A Homicide

NY1News

The death of a transgender woman in Upper Manhattan has now been ruled a homicide.

The medical examiner says 21-year-old Islan Nettles died from blunt impact injuries to her head.

Nettles was with another transgender woman last Saturday night near 147th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard.

Police say the pair met a group of men who attacked them once they realized that Nettles and her friend weren't born as females.

http://www.ny1.com/content/news/187665/transgender-woman-s-manhattan-death-ruled-a-homicide

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Transgender Woman's Manhattan Death Ruled A Homicide (Original Post) hrmjustin Aug 2013 OP

21 years old and is gone because of something she liked... tsk, tsk. BlueJazz Aug 2013 #1

Do you think her murderers should get the death penalty? hrmjustin Aug 2013 #2

I don't believe in the death penalty ....not because I think it's wrong but because it's used.. BlueJazz Aug 2013 #3

I don't believe in it either. The whole thing is sad. hrmjustin Aug 2013 #4

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

1. 21 years old and is gone because of something she liked... tsk, tsk.

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:18 PM

Aug 2013

Quite a few people shouldn't be on this Earth.

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. Do you think her murderers should get the death penalty?

Reply to BlueJazz (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:20 PM

Aug 2013

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

3. I don't believe in the death penalty ....not because I think it's wrong but because it's used..

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:31 PM

Aug 2013

...unfairly.
I think 35-40 years will be enough

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

4. I don't believe in it either. The whole thing is sad.

Reply to BlueJazz (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:38 PM

Aug 2013

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