TooMuchBlue

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2006-10-14

From the you-do-the-math department

A death-row inmate who has been in solitary confinement for over a year is medically confirmed to be 11 weeks pregnant. Uh huh. Read it for yourself.

The report said it was the first time that a death-row prisoner had become pregnant in Vietnam and that police were investigating how it had happened.

[Nguyen Thi] Oanh's husband was serving a jail sentence at another prison in another province, the newspaper said.

Oanh was due to face a firing squad this year after losing her appeal against the death sentence she received last year for possession of a billion dong ($63,000) worth of heroin.

“Police are investigating how it happened.” Anyone over the age of 16 (I’m being generous here) knows how it happened. The guards obviously did some math and invented a new “fringe benefit” of employment. The question is not how but who?

Oddly enough, the people who flock to every apparition of the Virgin Mary are not making the trek to witness this apparent new Immaculate Conception. Must be a bit far for a pilgrimage this time of year. Or maybe they just can’t get clearance to visit a death-row inmate in solitary confinement.

The moral of the story: don’t get imprisoned in a third world country, especially if you’re a woman.

[via Drudge]

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