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‘She loved being a mother’: Pregnant woman executed for refusing abortion, family says
WaPo ^ | 05-18-2016 | Peter Holley

Posted on 05/18/2016 9:07:59 AM PDT by NRx

...One of the things Candace Pickens was going through in recent months, relatives said, was a volatile and abusive relationship — one she managed to keep hidden from some of the people who knew her best in and around Asheville, N.C., where she lived.

Her boyfriend, Nathaniel Elijah Dixon, had a violent history that included attempted robbery and allegations of domestic violence against another woman with whom he had a child, according to the Citizen-Times. In addition to Dixon’s extensive criminal history, police think he has possible ties to a Los Angeles street gang.

When Pickens recently discovered that she was pregnant with Dixon’s child, abortion was not an option, she told friends and family members.

She would have a second child, she insisted.

Now, relatives think it was that insistence that may have led to her death.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: andoutcometheracists
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1 posted on 05/18/2016 9:07:59 AM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx
Her boyfriend, Nathaniel Elijah Dixon, had a violent history that included attempted robbery and allegations of domestic violence against another woman with whom he had a child, according to the Citizen-Times. In addition to Dixon’s extensive criminal history, police think he has possible ties to a Los Angeles street gang.

I'm going to guess, one of Obama's sons?

2 posted on 05/18/2016 9:09:04 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: JRios1968

#blacklivesmatter


3 posted on 05/18/2016 9:09:52 AM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: NRx
possible ties to a Los Angeles street gang.

Sure. Blame Los Angeles.

4 posted on 05/18/2016 9:10:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: JRios1968

I would be willing to go way out on a limb and say, yes.


5 posted on 05/18/2016 9:10:31 AM PDT by sport
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To: JRios1968
Gosh, why would you assume that?


6 posted on 05/18/2016 9:11:05 AM PDT by Salamander (Disco bloodbath boogie fever...)
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To: Pelham

She has a fast pass to heaven hopefully. Yes the premarital sex is uncool, but she chose her baby over her own life. That has to count for something.


7 posted on 05/18/2016 9:11:53 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: NRx

He not only shot her in the face & killed her, he shot the 3 year old in the face as well .... the little guy lost his left eye & has a 50/50 chance of making it.


8 posted on 05/18/2016 9:12:45 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: JRios1968

Yup.

Woman he murdered and her son:


9 posted on 05/18/2016 9:13:08 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: NRx

Sorry, women, but this is what happens when you hang out with street savages. What in hell got into her head that she let this reptilian into her pants?

And it’s murder, not execution.


10 posted on 05/18/2016 9:13:47 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Freedom of speech: an illusion that Americans hold fast to, although it disappeared decades ago.)
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To: NRx

10 years ago the cops could have pulled up to this dirt bag and took him out, all they had to say he was reaching for what looked like a gun and nobody would have cared.

BLM has completed their goal of destroying law enforcement


11 posted on 05/18/2016 9:15:40 AM PDT by arl295
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‘Executed’? Wouldn’t that imply some guilt on her part? Poor choice of words.


12 posted on 05/18/2016 9:16:14 AM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: NRx

A beautiful woman with a good heart gets mixed up with an evil thug gang banger.

Look at the evil.

He wants her to kill their unborn child and when she refuses he kills her and tries to kill her child.

Hand him high.


13 posted on 05/18/2016 9:17:23 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: rjsimmon

She was a pretty woman, nice smile. Cute kid, appears well-loved. Destroyed, due to a very bad choice for a boyfriend.


14 posted on 05/18/2016 9:18:44 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Street gangs and illegal aliens are now occupied California’s biggest export.

It used to be surfing, back when Americans still lived here.


15 posted on 05/18/2016 9:18:56 AM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: NRx

Idiotic headline. She was MURDERED, not executed.


16 posted on 05/18/2016 9:19:34 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Salamander

A lot of black men just love their violence.

I see no need to spend tax dollars on that thug. Either waste him now or put him in a cage for the rest of his existence here on earth and don’t waste our tax dollars in the courts.


17 posted on 05/18/2016 9:21:13 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: akalinin

It implies an allegation, however wicked the allegers are about it.


18 posted on 05/18/2016 9:24:06 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: VRWCmember
Idiotic headline. She was MURDERED, not executed.

...and these are the people they're hiring from journalism schools. Idiots is right.
19 posted on 05/18/2016 9:26:04 AM PDT by Deo volente ("NAFTA, GATT, WTO, New World Order." George Putnam, among others, warned us.)
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To: boycott

It’s maybe the only fig leaf inhibiting it from going after you or me on ginned up charges. If private gangs are dreadful, imagine the entire government becoming a gang.


20 posted on 05/18/2016 9:26:40 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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