send it to rachel.com. for example, we ve been following this issue in tennessee of this ghoulish statue of a ku klux klan leader which sits on private property surrounded by more than a dozen confederate flags. it s clearly visible from interstate 65, just outside nashville. lawmakers have been trying to find a way to hide it from the interstate. today, we received a picture from one of you guys showing what that statue looks like today. what looks like that statue in full view still but with all of nathan s confederate flags lowered. we re not sure why. maybe today s laundry day. i don t know. we reached out to the owner of the land on which these statues sit. we haven t heard back yet. we d like to know the meaning of this. if you find out for if the flags go back up, please, nashville, let us know. it s been a great start but, please, keep it up. send it to rachel.com.
surrounded by more than a dozen confederate flags. it s clearly visible from interstate 65, just outside nashville. lawmakers have been trying to find a way to hide it from the interstate. today, we received a picture from one of you guys showing what that statue looks like today. what looks like that statue in full view still but with all of nathan s confederate flags lowered. we re not sure why. maybe today s laundry day. i don t know. we reached out to the owner of the land on which these statues sit. we haven t heard back yet. we d like to know the meaning of this. if you find out for if the flags go back up, please, nashville, let us know. it s been a great start but, please, keep it up. send it to rachel.com. if you get campaign mailers that you think is news, stuff pops in your local paper, local
the legal arguments would be based squarely on nathan s mental health. they proceeded to file over a period of years his motion for post-conviction relief, alleging that the trial attorney was ineffective, and so, therefore, he didn t receive a fair trial. if granted post-conviction relief, nathan s sentence could be converted to life in prison. and his appeals would bring up a critical question that have long surrounded the death penalty. how mentally ill does a convict need to be to avoid being executed? there s just no competent, credible doctors that will tell you that his evil conduct was the product of being in a manic state. that his conduct was somehow altered by being bipolar or suffering from any other mental illness. the idea that nathan could escape death due to mental illness enraged the victims families and the sole survivor. in my head, he had to be crazy. i mean, how else would a sane person walk into a child
mother, her brother, and her father. they spent time observing him very closely and sent him back with a report that didn t just say nathan dunlap was competent to stand trial, but said that he was a malingerer. a faker. that he tended to enhance or invent symptomology consistent with what he wanted to be true. but state psychiatrists never have full access to nathan s medical records or family history, and the defense believed the evaluation was biased. there s an entire argument over whether he actually does have mental health problems, or whether he s faking in an effort to make an insanity plea or avoid the death penalty. during trial, nathan s attorneys never mentioned his psychiatric evaluations or the idea that he may have been suffering from a mental break during the massacre. the defense is afraid that if
taunting him that he was next, and that day he had a manic break. he really just started ranting and raving and had to be hospitalized shortly thereafter. nathan s ongoing psychiatric struggles brought about a major shift in his appeal strategy. now with a new team of lawyers, the legal arguments would be based squarely on nathan s mental health. they proceeded to file over a period of years his motion for post-conviction relief, alleging that the trial attorney was ineffective, and so, therefore, he didn t receive a fair trial. if granted post-conviction relief, nathan s sentence could be converted to life in prison. and his appeals would bring up a critical question that have long surrounded the death penalty. how mentally ill does a convict need to be to avoid being executed? there s just no competent, credible doctors that will tell you that his evil conduct was