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As the attorney for Joseph, the inmate in Louisiana, I’m writing to defend his 8th amendment rights. Joseph has committed murder, sentencing him to death. In his situation, he was attempting to kill himself but misfired murdering his roommate in the other room. This accident should not be punished by death as it wasn’t attempting. Joseph’s sad and unusual case mustn’t go to the worst stage of punishment and we plead for a life in prison instead of a lethal injection.

Leading to the event, Joseph had had finally met his love of his life after a decade of depression. After two weeks of dating he asked his girlfriend, Beneatha, to move to Nigeria with him but was rejected. At first, Joseph dealt with it but ended back in a hole of depression.
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