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| Judge rules delay does not bar trial |
| By TriCities.com |
| Published: 08/19/2008 |
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TENNESSEE - Willie Clyde Puckett had been in jail for less than a week in 1985 when he would ultimately tell a corrections officer that he did not want a cellmate. Puckett, then 23, had been charged with aggravated rape involving a 3-year-old. He wanted to be alone, and his fellow inmate at the Sullivan County jail would not stop talking, he later told the officer. So, according to statements he gave to a corrections officer the night of the incident, he forced his cellmate to write a suicide note, bound him in a bed sheet, hung him from a ceiling lamp, doused him with lighter fluid from a cigarette lighter he punctured with a coat hanger, and set him on fire. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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