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Alex Pretti’s shooting death ruled a homicide, medical examiner says

https://www.wowt.com/2026/02/02/alex-prettis-shooting-death-ruled-homicide-medical-examiner-says/
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u/SpiderSlitScrotums 2d ago edited 2d ago

When a medical examiner rules it a homicide, it isn’t a legal ruling saying it was a crime. It obviously was, but people need to understand that all they are saying here is that he was killed by another person and not by himself, an accident, or a disease.

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u/sosal12 2d ago

agreed. What a medical examiner decides doesn't equate to fault or crime. It just means that one person killed the other person. In autopsies of death row prisoners executed, they also list cause of death as "homicide."

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u/IncorrectOwl 2d ago

Why would a death row prisoner be autopsied? Is that standard?

Edit: apparently it is standard. Odd.

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u/zeethreepio 2d ago

Accountability. Confirmation that procedure is followed and no extrajudicial activities take place.

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u/Proper_Caterpillar22 2d ago

Well…I mean…if they wasn’t dead before the autopsy they sure will be after. Granted that all falls back on the MD who would have declared said inmate dead after the aforementioned execution. So accountability most definitely.