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LIVINGSTON, Texas - A death-row inmate slit his own throat with a makeshift knife early Thursday, committing suicide less than 18 hours before he was scheduled to be executed, a prison official said.

I love news stories like this. Now, instead of becoming a statistic and receiving the punishment handed down by the court for the slaying of a convenience store clerk, the inmate can be viewed as some sort of victim. But then there's this...

Prison guards had been checking on Johnson's welfare every 15 minutes, as is customary, when they found him unresponsive in a pool of blood in his cell,

Why do we need to check on the welfare of someone that we're just going to kill anyway? Save the tax payers some cash and give them some opportunity is what I say.