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HuffPost can't pass up chance to use convicted multiple murderer's last words to own Ron DeSantis

In case you missed it, last night, convicted murderer Donald Dillbeck used his final words before his execution to condemn Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Given the heinous nature of the crimes of which Dillbeck was convicted, it was pretty twisted, not to mention straight-up insane, for him to even put the idea out there into the universe that Ron DeSantis “has done a lot worse.” And we can only hope that most people out there would agree with our assessment.

Unfortunately, HuffPost is apparently too far gone. DeSantis Derangement Syndrome is real, and it looks a little something like this:

Sounds promising, doesn’t it? Oh, it is:

Oh.

Good Lord, HuffPost.

The headline is bad. Real bad.

And the article’s not really any better:

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Like most people sentenced to death, Dillbeck endured extreme abuse as a child. His birth mother drank 18-24 beers per day throughout her pregnancy, resulting in “a catastrophic effect on Mr. Dillbeck’s intellectual and adaptive functioning,” his lawyers wrote in a petition requesting that the Supreme Court review his case. “That Mr. Dillbeck suffers from Neurobehavioral Disorder associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (ND-PAE) is thoroughly medically documented, unrebutted, and factually beyond dispute,” the lawyers continued.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that executing people with intellectual disabilities violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. In his petition, Dillbeck’s lawyer argued that ND-PAE is “functionally similar” and “identical in both etiology and symptomatology” to intellectual disabilities and should exclude him from execution.

Dillbeck was put in foster care when he was 4 years old and began using drugs by the age of 13, the Tampa Bay Times reported. When he was 15, he was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting Lee County sheriff’s deputy Dwight Lynn Hall after the officer caught the boy with a stolen car. The teen was repeatedly sexually assaulted in prison. In 1990, he escaped from an off-site vocational program, purchased a knife, and encountered Vann in her car in a parking lot. When she refused to drive him away, he fatally stabbed her.

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With all due respect to memory of the late Mr. Dillbeck, who the f**k cares? Having a crappy childhood is terrible, and no child deserves to have a childhood like his … but the police officer he shot to death didn’t deserve to be murdered, either. The innocent woman he stabbed to death didn’t deserve to be murdered, either.

It’s pretty gross that HuffPost apparently thinks we’re supposed to be somewhat sympathetic to Dillbeck’s plight. Nope. Sorry. You murder someone in cold blood, you don’t get the benefit of our doubt.

And how utterly shameful and disgusting of HuffPost to try to use a murderer’s demented final words as a political weapon against Ron DeSantis.

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Gross.

Oh, Ron DeSantis is definitely in their heads. Which is why we can only expect the unhinged and intellectually dishonest attacks on him to increase in the coming months, especially if he decides to run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

We can only assume that HuffPost will be out there helping to lead the charge.

If putting “people first” is trivializing or outright ignoring the murder of innocents just to make a Republican look bad, we shudder to imagine what putting people last looks like.

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Maybe — just maybe — there’s something to that whole enemy-of-the-people thing.

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with an additional tweet.

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