Diagrama stanadyne injection pump

Wake up, poke, test, inject the insulin, lunch poke injections, supper poke injections . Before I go to bed and wake up, short acting injections. I’m only 36 and my body is rotting away and I am alone. Everyone I know is dead. Hundreds….. everyone. It’s like a fucking battle field. Everyone talks shit about me…. When your down you see who your real friends are. Even my family has turned their back. My grandmother who I love just had a stroke last week, my grandfather two heart attacks. My godmother is on life support. My best friends, a while click of hundreds of us are all fucking dead. My friend just blew his head off last month. I want to fucking die I’m just trying to get the courage. All I have is my dogs. That’s all. But I can’t live for them. Please don’t judge me….. I just want to know ideas on what to do to get pumped enough to pull. God please, I’ve called out to you so many times and you never answered. I haven’t had a woman in years. I have no one. I just waste away in my room all day and night. It’s been like this for years. I just lay there. Like I’m already asleep in a box. When I go they’re going to crack my skull open and take out my brain. Take out all my organs. Then drain my blood and fill me up with some kind of solution so I don’t stink like death. I’ll have that nice formaldehyde smell. I used to hate that smell but now it’s like a comfort. I wonder what they will Find when they slice my brain into little pieces. My own mother calls me a fucking waste, a mistake, a fucking fat looser junkie….she posts fucked up videos of my on Facebook. Everyone in my home town has seen them. No one will talk to Me. I want to die but I don’t want to be embalmed. I just want to go In a box and sleep. There’s a reason they bring flowers. Funny thing is, NOBODY WILL GO. That’s what hurts the most. I was close. I remembered waking up not knowing where I was or who I was for about 15 minutes. I couldn’t talk. All I could understand was that I was me…………I remembered when I opened my eyes….if they cut me up it’s ok. I think fent is the best way. I’m going to go tomorrow and free everyone from me. No one seems the struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it’s hard to keep going when nobody loves you.

If you pay attention you’ll notice the average citizen of Liberal Democracy is not a fully conscious creature.
The mindset of average people out there is only their interests, their business, their destination and what they want to say matters. Other people in the community only exist as a hindrance or to provide them with any desired services or validation.
They’ll talk over the top of you in conversation, walk directly into you, stand in your path and tailgate you without pausing to consider how obnoxious all of this is, because to them you are just a faceless aberration in the way of their next consumption.
You’re in the way of their dopamine.
Terrible spacial awareness is a core feature of their daily function which I think correlates with their inability to recognise and benefit from new information.
These are worms of consumption with very little intuitive sense; a cattle bred to graze.
And they are somehow noticeably worse after having had their Safe & Effective™ vaccine injections. I can only speculate as to why but they are definitely, markedly duller than they were before being pumped full of whatever was in those concoctions.
The pills they’re all taking for their manic depressive super saiyan anxiety disorders are just another contribution to the bluntening of their minds.
But there are still gems amongst the dirt clods. Look for those odd balls who actually notice your presence, make space to accommodate you in public places and listen to what you’re saying when you speak.

I dont usually sweat much but when I play golf in the summer either my sensor or my pump injection site falls out because of the sweat. I use skin tac everytime but even that stuff doesnt hold it on. Is it because I drink beer so my sweat dissolves the glue more? Are there any other ideas I am missing to help keep my equipment in? That stuff is too expensive and limited supply to be falling out and not able to put back in.

I am building a diabetic management app that will accurately forecast future glucose. I have a prototype created and I’m going to turn it into a full production mobile app. I am a type 1 diabetic and my goal is not to make money but add life expectancy to diabetics. I want every user of the app to have a A1C below 7. I have already committed to the goal of spending the next 15 months developing the app. I have enough savings to support myself until then. Currently the prototype only works on iPhone, with Dexcom, Fitbit and multiple daily injection. I plan on expanding to android, other cgm, other fitness wearables and pump users.
In the interest of helping as many people as possible the app will have an ad support tier and a premium tier with additional features.
For the purposes of attracting investors I would like to see how much interest is out there for such an app. What type of features would users like in addition to glucose prediction, insulin recommendation, basic nutrition/glucose/activity/insulin log? How much would people be willing to pay for this service? Would anyone like to be a beta tester?
I want to develop this app out in the open and receive regular feedback from diabetics so we end up with the app that diabetics deserve.
I’m going to try my absolute best in coming 15 months and hopefully this grows into something that will allow me to continue to improve this product indefinitely.
Thanks for your time 😁

I don’t know if I am storing it wrong but I tried everything thing, this is always the scenario first I open a pen, my blood sugar readings are amazing, nothing above 120 i feel great then about a week or 2 later things start to change, my eating habits are the same and it is not like I get a cold every month but my blood sugar start spiking 3 hours after a meal, it reaches 250 and more even though I dose correctly and I had the same meal a week ago with no spike, i go have to keep taking rapid insulin throughout the day even if I don’t eat but it keeps spiking and when i go to bed I wake up with crazy high blood sugar because I can’t inject while I am sleeping.
At that point I figure that tresiba is not working and i change it and the cycle repeats.
I swear I took everything else into account, the only possible explanation is the tresibe, I told my endo and she doesn’t believe me, she told me that they don’t just stop working, but they do and I don’t know what to do, I have to be a manual pump all day long and I test my blood sugar all day I can’t get anything done
I store it in every possible way, I put it in room temperature in dark, i put it in fridge, at the door or on the shelve, they are both supposed to be this fragile, what else should I do.

I don’t know if I am storing it wrong but I tried everything thing, this is always the scenario first I open a pen, my blood sugar readings are amazing, nothing above 120 i feel great then about a week or 2 later things start to change, my eating habits are the same and it is not like I get a cold every month but my blood sugar start spiking 3 hours after a meal, it reaches 250 and more even though I dose correctly and I had the same meal a week ago with no spike, i go have to keep taking rapid insulin throughout the day even if I don’t eat but it keeps spiking and when i go to bed I wake up with crazy high blood sugar because I can’t inject while I am sleeping.
At that point I figure that tresiba is not working and i change it and the cycle repeats.
I swear I took everything else into account, the only possible explanation is the tresibe, I told my endo and she doesn’t believe me, she told me that they don’t just stop working, but they do and I don’t know what to do, I have to be a manual pump all day long and I test my blood sugar all day I can’t get anything done
I store it in every possible way, I put it in room temperature in dark, i put it in fridge, at the door or on the shelve, they are both supposed to be this fragile, what else should I do.

I don’t know if I am storing it wrong but I tried everything thing, this is always the scenario first I open a pen, my blood sugar readings are amazing, nothing above 120 i feel great then about a week or 2 later things start to change, my eating habits are the same and it is not like I get a cold every month but my blood sugar start spiking 3 hours after a meal, it reaches 250 and more even though I dose correctly and I had the same meal a week ago with no spike, i go have to keep taking rapid insulin throughout the day even if I don’t eat but it keeps spiking and when i go to bed I wake up with crazy high blood sugar because I can’t inject while I am sleeping.
At that point I figure that tresiba is not working and i change it and the cycle repeats.
I swear I took everything else into account, the only possible explanation is the tresibe, I told my endo and she doesn’t believe me, she told me that they don’t just stop working, but they do and I don’t know what to do, I have to be a manual pump all day long and I test my blood sugar all day I can’t get anything done
I store it in every possible way, I put it in room temperature in dark, i put it in fridge, at the door or on the shelve, they are both supposed to be this fragile, what else should I do.

Hello all!
I am 35, t1 diabetic since I was 10 and have so far resisted pumps as I don't like relying on tech due to anxiety about it failing. The Libre 2 changed my life, but with 1 in 2/3 sensors failing... I am all too aware of how stressful it is. I am also very slender and sensitive about things on my body so worry about site rotation, and also failure rates of the pump and how I would get a replacement.
I take a tiny amount of insulin a day, 4-5 units of slow acting split between morning and evening and the only time I bolus is for highs - usually a 0.5 unit.
I have a lot of historical hypo anxiety that has reawakened recently after some bad night time experiences and I am fed up of living in terror. Every time I inject I feel a sense of dread and fear, and it's making me too scared to properly correct highs.
I wonder if the pump might help alleviate some of my anxiety, specifically the ability to control small amounts of insulin and even suspend insulin.
I'm approaching a real state of high anxiety and burnout with this.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
Thank you so much.
EDIT: For context I am UK so would be prescribed on NHS

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Managing diabetes goes beyond monitoring blood sugar levels; it encompasses handling the various tools we use, such as insulin pumps and different insulin formulations. Throughout my journey, I have encountered numerous challenges, especially with skin reactions to different insulin types and pump cannulas. I hope sharing my experiences will help others facing similar issues make informed decisions.
Understanding Skin Reactions
Skin reactions in insulin therapy can stem from multiple sources and often develop progressively with more exposure:

• Adhesives: Adhesives are a common cause of skin reactions, characterized by redness, itchiness, and sometimes pain over the entire area where the adhesive was applied. Reactions can intensify and occur more rapidly with repeated exposure. These can be easily overcome by underpatches or completely removing the adhesive and replacing it with hypafix glued with hotglue.
• Cannula Material: Individual reactions to cannula materials vary. 'Plastic' cannulas (made from teflon) initially worked for me for about five years before they started causing reactions, prompting me to switch to steel cannulas. Cannula skin reactions are subtler than adhesive reactions, usually presenting as redness and bumps at the cannula site with intense itching.
• Insulin Formulations: Distinguishing an allergy to a cannula from an allergy to an insulin component can be difficult as both present similarly (itchiness and redness around the insertion site). In my experience, ingredients in insulin, particularly m-cresol, have triggered skin reactions. For example, both Humalog and Apidra contain higher levels of m-cresol and caused significant issues for me.

Differentiating Between Cannula and Insulin Reactions
One way to differentiate between an insulin skin reaction and a cannula skin reaction is to switch from a teflon cannula to a steel cannula. Unfortunately, with devices like the Omnipod, you cannot use a steel cannula. Instead, have your healthcare professional fill the pod with saline instead of insulin and wear it for 2-3 days to see how your skin reacts. If there's no reaction to the saline, it's likely the insulin causing the issue.
Investigating Skin Reactions: My Personal Journey
It's crucial to be vigilant when interpreting changes in symptoms, as improvement with a steel cannula may not necessarily indicate resolution of the issue. In my case, switching to steel cannulas initially appeared to resolve the problem. However, after about two years of use, I began experiencing local absorption site problems despite careful rotation of injection sites. To address this, I experimented with inserting the steel cannula more superficially by bending the Tandem trusteel needle at about a 45-degree angle. While this improved absorption, it also led to a recurrence of skin reactions. This led me to conclude that the teflon cannulas were not the primary cause of the reactions, but rather the insulin itself. Infusing the insulin more superficially, whether with a teflon or bent steel cannula, allowed me to observe the skin reactions more clearly, while deeper infusion masked them.
This hypothesis was confirmed when I conducted the saline test with Omnipod and experienced no skin reaction, indicating that the issue likely stemmed from the insulin rather than the cannula material.
The Role of M-Cresol
Research indicates that m-cresol in insulin formulations can cause skin reactions. Insulins with higher concentrations of m-cresol, like Humalog and Apidra, are associated with more inflammation. Studies suggest that removing m-cresol can lessen these reactions.
Detailed M-Cresol Concentrations in Insulin Formulations:

• Fiasp and NovoRapid: 1.72 mg/ml
• Humalog: 3.15 mg/ml
• Apidra: Approximately 2.8 mg/ml
• Lyumjev: Same as Humalog, 3.15 mg/ml
• Biosimilars: Like Admelog and Trurapi, mirror the m-cresol content of their originals, providing no benefit for those with sensitivities.

My Personal Journey with Insulin Pumps

• Initial Experience: I used a Tandem teflon cannula for about five years before developing skin reactions.
• Switch to Steel Cannulas: After switching to steel cannulas, I thought the problem was resolved. However, about two years later, I began developing problems with local absorption sites. This was exacerbated when I bent the Tandem trusteel needle to direct insulin more superficially, improving absorption but leading to renewed skin reactions. This prompted me to conclude that it might not have been the teflon causing the initial reactions but the insulin when infused more superficially.
• Saline Test with Omnipod: Conducting a saline test in the Omnipod confirmed no skin reaction, which reassured me that the teflon cannulas were not the issue.
• Experimenting with Insulin Types: I tried Humalog (Ademlog) insulin with an Omnipod, but after just 2 days, I immediately started experiencing local skin reactions, despite using FloNase before applying the pod.
• Switching Insulin Formulations: We then decided to switch to another insulin with less m-cresol, Fiasp. It worked wonderfully for about 2 weeks, but I then developed insulin resistance, a phenomenon described by many people after some time using Fiasp. Fiasp is the same insulin as NovoRapid, but it contains vitamin B3, which is used to facilitate faster absorption. Some people hypothesize that this vitamin may increase insulin resistance over the long term. Despite trying various strategies to mitigate this, such as combining Fiasp with other insulins or alternating between Fiasp and other insulins, I still experienced resistance and skin reactions.
• Transition to NovoRapid: I have now started using NovoRapid, which contains less m-cresol than Humalog, and everything seems to be going fine for now.

Skin reactions can be mentally taxing and complex. The best approach is to methodically test different cannulas (teflon/steel), different perfusions (insulin/saline), and different insulin types until you find the right combination. Research on removing m-cresol from insulin formulations has shown promising results in animal studies, offering hope for less inflammatory and equally effective insulin therapies in the future (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsptsci.1c00047).
Also, if you keep having skin reactions even with insulin containing less m cresol, know that some physician were able to desentitize a children to this component so he could use insulin in insulin pumps https://jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-1947-6-263
References
· https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760098/pdf/nihms-1843053.pdf
· https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1398-9995.2007.01567.x
· https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11095-017-2233-0
· https://jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-1947-6-263
· https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsptsci.1c00047

Hey guys, I’m 24 and 3 weeks into 1 pump a day. Early on was awesome but now I feel like pre trt again. Get my levels checked again soon though. I’m just looking for any advice I can get for gel because most of the stuff here is for injections. Thanks

Hello, so I am 2 years on t gel. My voice is still feminine, I can’t grow facial hair past just weird fuzzies and stray chin hairs. I tried the injections but I developed bad itching after the 3rd injection that lasted a full week. I stopped the injections and spoke with my doctor and she said it’s normal to get itchy, but being itchy for a week is extremely uncommon and since the itchy lasted a week, it’ll just keep getting worse and if I continue the shots it would just constantly be itchy. More changes seemed to be happening on the injection, but I can’t live my life itchy like that. My doctor said I can try doing the thigh, but I have trauma with needles that originated with being stabbed in the thighs so I cannot do that. I did the t shots in the stomach, which was hard enough to do. As far as the gel not working enough, I must not be absorbing the gel well. I’m on 3 pumps of the gel, and she said anything higher will just make my body make more estrogen. I still get misgendered at about a 90% rate. My voice doesn’t sound like a cis male. I’ve experienced bottom growth, lots of leg hair, lots of sex drive, but still not enough voice drop and my face is still feminine. All the things I wanted and I need to pass I am not getting but all the things I don’t need and really are just a private matter are happening. What the fuck do I do? Am I just double unlucky? Why can’t I just pass like other trans men can? They just start hormones and poof they pass. Some trans guys pass so well pre t and it’s so frustrating. After 2 years on t gel I should be passing. This is why I am afraid to ask people out or date because what if they think I’m a girl? What if they still see me as a girl even if they know I’m trans because I don’t pass enough? I’m unfortunately only attracted to men and men tend to be the most close minded when it comes to trans people. It’s so frustrating and I feel like no matter what I do, I will never pass

I'm dealing with what probably is a simple issue, but I am clearly too blind to see it. I drive a 1998 volkswagen golf gti vr6. It has the OBD2 2.8 12v vr6 in it and a few modifications. I have 8 codes, 6 of which are repeats of "random misfire" and the other two are something along the lines of "secondary air injection", and "evap valve open circuit". I am at a loss of what could be going on here and I want to confirm the issue before I just start dumping money into it.
To start, the car came with a "cold air intake", which I'm sure you probably know that means hot air, so I custom fitted an airbox around the new filter.
I replaced the coilpack, and the sparkplugs look fine. The spark plug wires also appear to be in good shape. The fuel pump and fuel filter are brand new, and I'm not sure about the injectors. I did however run seafoam through the system when I got the car.
All of the sensors have been replaced except the o2 sensors, but I'm not getting any codes for those.
I unplugged the evap purge valve to see if it was stuck open and the car sounded worse and it was definitely closed when I went to see if there was a vaccum.
As of right now I'm suspecting the catalytic converter, but I don't want to dump 200 dollars into one and have to get it welded on, just for the issue to persist. I love this car and I really need help here. Does anyone have any clue as to what may be going on here? I would appreciate any sort of input at this point. Thanks.

This is the list that I wrote for Oklahoma's execution roster since the nationwide reinstatement of capital punishment in the late 1970s. Something that should be mentioned is that given the nature of many death penalty related crimes, many of the descriptions contain very disturbing details. Please read at your own risk.
Florida's list is next, and I'll post my list for Texas once I've completed it. With Texas, I've currently finished 464 entries out of the 587 cases to date. That will probably take 7 or 8 posts for it all to be released, so I'll probably do two posts a day with Texas to avoid spamming the sub. At the end of this year, I'll repost the states that have conducted further executions with the updated information.
As with Missouri and Virginia, Reddit's maximum character count limitations forced me to divide Oklahoma's list into two separate parts. Here is the link to part 2.
The currently 124 executed offenders, cases 1 to 62:
1. Charles Coleman (~1950s-1990, lethal injection): A month after he was released on parole in 1979, Coleman broke into a house. While sacking it for any valuables, the homeowner’s brother and sister in law, 68 year old John and 62 year old Roxie Seward, walked in on him and were both shot dead. Coleman stole Roxie’s purse, several packets of frozen meat, and the homeowner’s watch during the burglary, and was arrested shortly afterwards. However, Coleman managed to escape custody, and went on a rampage that involved several burglaries, auto thefts, slitting the throat of a policeman in a failed murder attempt, the shooting death of 49 year old Russell Lewis Jr. in a carjacking, and the abduction of a deputy. The kidnapped deputy was rescued following an armed standoff with other police officers. Coleman had an extensive history of animal cruelty, armed robberies, assaults, and carrying concealed weapons convictions dating back to when he was 11 years old. He was also heavily suspected in the murder of his teenage girlfriend’s father, but was acquitted by the courts despite the prosecution’s strong belief in his guilt.
2. Robyn Parks (1977-1992, lethal injection): During a gas station robbery, Parks shot and killed Abdullah Ibrahim, a 24 year old Bangladeshi immigrant that worked as the attendant. According to Parks, he murdered Ibrahim for catching him using a stolen credit card.
3. Olan Randle (1980-1992, lethal injection): Randle invaded a home and shot the occupants, 41 year old Robert Swinford, Sinford's fiance 42 year old Averil Bourque, and Bourque's friend 38 year old Julia Lovejoy, dead. He took a pocket knife and several watches from the victims.
4. Thomas Grasso (~1970s(?)-1995, lethal injection): While living in Oklahoma, Grasso strangled 87 year old Hilda Johnson, the best friend of his girlfriend's grandmother, to death with her Christmas lights. He took $8 from her purse, several coins that added up to $4, and a television set that he sold for $125. Grasso then moved to New York, and strangled 81 year old Leslie Holtz for his social security check. The trialing arrangements caused some controversy, as the New York governors at the time were anti death penalty, and tried to prevent Grasso's extradition in favor of giving him a life sentence in their jurisdiction. Grasso had several previous convictions for theft and was fired multiple times for stealing from his jobs.
5. Roger Stafford (~1974(?)-1995, lethal injection): Stafford was condemned for killing at least 9 people in two separate robbery incidents with his brother and ex wife, though his ex wife claimed that he was involved with as many as 34 murders nationwide. The first convicted incident was when he and the ex wife carjacked and fatally shot a couple, 38 year old Melvin and 31 year old Linda Lorenz, and their son, 12 year old Richard. A few weeks after the Lorenz murders, Stafford stormed a restaurant and gunned down 6 employees, 56 year old Isaac Freeman, 43 year old Louis Zacarias, 17 year old Anthony Tew, 17 year old David Lindsey, 16 year old David Salsman, and 15 year old Terri Horst. One of Stafford's additional attributed victims was 20 year old Jimmy Berry, who was killed in the hold up of an Alabaman McDonalds, but he wasn't charged by the state due to his death sentences in Oklahoma.
6. Robert Brecheen (1983-1995, lethal injection): Breechen was involved in a feud over money with 59 year old Mary Stubbs and her husband. In an attempt to take what he perceived was owed to him, Breechen carried out a night time burglary of their home. While rummaging through the house, Breechen stumbled upon old Marie in her living room and shot her to death. The gunshots and screams awoke her husband, and he chased him away with his own gun.
7. Benjamin Brewer (1978-1996, lethal injection): Brewer raped his neighbor, 20 year old Karen Stapleton, in her home and stabbed her to death
8. Steven Hatch (1979-1996, lethal injection): Hatch and another assailant, Glen Ake, forced themselves inside the home that Richard Dougass, a 43 year old reverend, shared with his wife, 36 year old Marilyn, and their two children, 16 year old Brooks and 12 year old Lesile. The pair tied up the family and raped Lesile in front of her parents and brother. All four family members were shot, and Hatch and Ake ran off with $43 and the parents’ wedding rings. Richard and Marilyn were both killed in the shootings, while their children survived the attack. Ake was also initially condemned for the attack, but his sentence was overturned and resentenced to life following mental health concerns, and passed away from undisclosed natural causes in 2011.
9. Scott Carpenter (1994-1997, lethal injection): In a convenience store robbery, Carpenter stabbed the owner, 56 year old A. J. Kelley, in the neck, and hid the body in the minnow room. He filled his truck with $37 worth of gas from the pumps and drove away from the scene. His execution caused some controversy, as it was reported that Carpenter gasped and spasmed for 11 minutes after being injected.
10. Michael Long (1997-1998, lethal injection): Enraged that his coworker, 24 year old Sheryl Graber, refused him sex and started screaming for help, he stabbed her over 31 times. Long also shot and killed her son, 5 year old Andrew, for being a witness.
11. Stephen Wood (1992-1998, lethal injection): While heavily intoxicated, Wood stabbed two other homeless men, 46 year old Charles Stephen and 34 year old Charles Von Johnson, dozens of times each. He was given a life sentence for both of their murders. During his incarceration, Robert Brigden, a 59 year old former minister that was serving a 40 year sentence for molesting several girls between the ages of 4-14 in his congregation, moved into his unit after refusing to go into protective custody. Woods killed Brigden in a stabbing attack, and his sentence was escalated to death by the courts for it.
12. Tuan Anh Nguyen (~1982-1998, lethal injection): By all accounts, Nguyen was jealously possessive over his wife, 21 year old Donna. During one of their arguments over his behavior, he stabbed Donna, her 6 year old nephew Joseph White, and her 3 year old niece Amanda White, in their home and left the bodies to be found by the children’s parents. He fled to Arizona, groomed a 14 year old girl into an illicit “relationship”, and impregnated her. After he convinced her to move in with him, Nguyen physically and sexually abused the girl until she fled and went to the local police for help. Nguyen was then deported back to Oklahoma to face trial for Donna and the White children’s slayings, and was sentenced to death for them.
13. John Duvall (1986-1998, lethal injection): During a fight with his wife, 30 year old Donna, Duvall stabbed and suffocated her to death with a pillow.
14. John Castro Sr. (1983-1999, lethal injection): Castro carjacked Beulah Cox, a 31 year old Oklahoma State University student, after she picked him up hitchhiking and shot her to death. A few months later, Castro held up a restaurant with an empty pistol, and attacked the manger, 29 year old Rhonda Pappan, after forcing her to open the register. During their struggle, Pappan was fatally stabbed, and he took off with her purse. During his mid teens, Castro was allegedly molested by his mother. Castro's attorneys made the argument that his glimpses of Cox's buttocks reminded him of his mother's reported abuse, and he was triggered into attacking her for it.
15. Sean Sellers (1985-1999, lethal injection): In 1985, a then 15 year old Sellers tried to buy beer from a convenience store, but the clerk, 32 year old Robert Bower, denied him due to being underaged at the time. Sellers gunned him down in a fit of rage. A year later, Sellers shot and killed his mother, 32 year old Vonda Bellofatto, and stepfather, 43 year old Paul, in their sleep. Due to being 16 at the time of his conviction, Sellers remains the youngest condemned offender to have his sentence carried out in the post Furman era. He also attracted national media attention for claiming that his crimes were the result of demonic possession.
16. Scotty Moore (1983-1999, lethal injection): Moore was fired from a motel for undisclosed reasons. In retaliation, Moore and a cousin (whom he was dating at the time), assaulted the motel, and gunned down the desk clerk, 42 year old Alex Fernandez. According to court documents, the pair took a total of $97 in the robbery.
17. Norman Newsted (1984-1999, lethal injection): Newsted tricked Lawrence Buckley, a 26 year old cab driver, into picking him up. He shot Buckley dead and took his wallet. In an attempt to cover his tracks, Newsted placed the body inside the cab, and drove it into a creek near a local church. Despite his best efforts, Buckley’s cab and remains were discovered a day later by the church’s pastor.
18. Cornel Cooks (1982-1999, lethal injection): Cooks and his accomplice broke into the home of 87 year old Jennie Ridling. She was gagged, raped, and suffocated to death with gauze wrappings. According to autopsy reports, the pair abused her for over 2 hours. They then sacked the house for any valuables and left with her checkbook.
19. Bobby Ross (1983-1999, lethal injection): While robbing an inn, Ross fatally shot a police officer, 30 year old Steve Mahan, that tried to intervene.
20. Malcolm Johnson (~1970s(?)-2000, lethal injection): Johnson invaded the apartment of 76 year old Ura Thompson and sexually assaulted her. Thompson either died from having her chest compounded during the abuse or was suffocated by Johnson’s hands covering her nose. He seized several possessions such as furs, typewriters, purse, watch, rings, and a hand mirror, which were discovered by police in his residence during an unrelated investigation of a firearms possession charge. Johnson had an extensive criminal history, which included several convictions of rape, armed robberies, and burglaries. The case attracted controversy when it was discovered that the lead chemist in the investigation misconducted several of her other cases, and forged some of the evidence used in the trial. Despite the other overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Johnson’s supporters took the opportunity to push a narrative of his innocence.
21. Gary Walker (~1960s-2000, lethal injection): Walker abducted, raped, and murdered at least 5 women, 36 year old Margaret Lydick, 35 year old Jane Hilburn, 32 year old Janet Jewell, 25 year old Valerie Shaw-Hartzell, and 24 year old DeRonda Roy, and non fatally assaulted several other women and teenage girls. The victims were mostly strangled to death with their bras and panties. Some of them were forced to withdraw hundreds of dollars from ATMs before they were killed. He also strangled a man, 63 year old Eddie Cash, with an electrical cord while robbing his home. Walker had dozens of previous convictions for burglary, carjacking, drug possession, and carrying concealed weapons. Some of his earliest arrests occurred when he was a teenager.
22. Michael Roberts (~1988-2000, lethal injection): A career burglar, Roberts was condemned for murder of 80 year old Lula Brooks. She was raped and her throat was slit by an intruder in her home. Roberts' death sentence and execution has been contested, as he was convicted on his later recounted testimony alone. He claimed that the investigators tricked him into confessing with the promise of a plea deal that was allegedly withheld from him.
23. Kelly Rogers (1990-2000, lethal injection): Rogers’ girlfriend lured 21 year old Karen Lauffenburger into her apartment with a fake pizza order. They accosted her when she arrived with the delivery. After the couple forced Lauffenburger to hand to over the $40 she earned from the night's pizza deliveries and withdraw $175 from an ATM, Rogers raped and stabbed her to death. The body was left in Lauffenburger’s apartment and was found by her boyfriend.
24. Ronald Boyd (1986-2000, lethal injection): During a robbery spree of several gas stations and supermarkets, Boyd engaged in a shootout with the responding officers. A Master Patrolman, 32 year old Richard Riggs, was killed in the exchange.
25. Charles Foster (~1980s(?)-2000, lethal injection): Foster suspected a grocery store owner, 74 year old Claude Wiley, of making sexual advances at his wife. He arranged for her to entice Wiley to their home with an order. When he arrived with the delivery, Foster stabbed and bludgeoned him to death with a baseball bat. He a history of convictions involving threats and violence, though my sources didn’t disclose any specific details.
26. James Robedeaux (1978-2000, lethal injection): In 1978, Robedeaux strangled his first wife, 30 year old Linda, and plead guilty to a second degree murder charges. He was released after serving 6 out of a 25 year sentence despite an escape attempt. In the following year, he began a relationship with 37 year old Nancy McKinney while he married a different woman. During an argument, Robedeaux beat McKinney to death, dismembered her body with a saw and machete, and scattered the remains across the state. While being investigated for McKinney's murder, he was arrested for choking and beating his estranged second wife. The cases were incidental and kept separate by the courts.
27. Roger Berget (~1985-2000, lethal injection): Berget carjacked and abducted 33 year old Rick Patterson with an accomplice, and shot him dead. He also admitted to the beating death of a roommate, 40 year old James Meadows, on the behalf of the man's wife. As a trivial side note, Berget's brother Rodney was executed in 2018 by the state of South Dakota for killing a prison guard [for more information, please see Rodney Berget's entry under the South Dakota section of my states with less then 10 executions post].
28. William Bryson (1988-2000, lethal injection): To collect a $300,000 life insurance policy, Marilyn Plantz recruited her boyfriend Byrson and his friend to kill her husband, 33 year old James. Byrson and his friend ambushed Plantz in his house as he was coming home from work and beat him to death with a baseball bat. With the intentions of staging an accident, Marilyn ordered the pair to burn the body in the couple's pickup truck.
29. Gregg Braun (1989-2000, lethal injection): Across several states, Braun shot and killed 4 women, 48 year old Geraldine Valdez, 31 year old Gwendolyn Miller, 28 year old Mary Rains, 27 year old Barbara Kochendorfer, and one man, 54 year old Pete Spurrier, while robbing stores.
30. George Wallace (~1970s-2000, lethal injection): Known as "the Mad Paddler" due to his habit of spanking abducted preteen and teenage boys with a wooden paddle, Wallace kidnapped his victims by posing as a police officer. After duping his targets into thinking that they were being arrested, Wallace restrained them with handcuffs and leg chains. The captives were then sexually abused and shot or stabbed to death. His crimes were exposed when an 18 year old man he abducted escaped from him despite being shot and stabbed numerous times. By his own admission, Wallace murdered 18 year old Thomas Reed, 15 year old William Domer, 14 year old Mark McLaughlin, 14 year old Jeffrey Foster, and 12 year old Alonzo Cade.
31. Eddie Trice (1987-2001, lethal injection): Trice snuck into the home of 84 year old Ernestine Jones and raped her. After he beat Jones to death with numbchucks, he terrorized and extorted her cognitively disabled son of $500 with threats of killing him if he told anyone of the murder. The son was also assaulted with a hammer, and he received injuries to his right eye, right cheekbone, and his right forearm.
32. Wanda Allen (~1981-2001, lethal injection): In 1981, Allen got into a fight with her live in girlfriend, 21 year old Dedra Pettus, and shot her dead. Despite giving a bungled story about her being accidentally killed in a shootout with Pettus’ ex boyfriend to the investigators, Allen managed to secure a 4 year sentence for manslaughter after pleading guilty to a plea deal, and was released after serving two years. While incarcerated, she started dating a fellow inmate, 29 year old Gloria Leathers, and continued their relationship outside of prison. The couple’s relationship was marred with extreme domestic violence on Allen’s end. In one incident, Allen struck Leathers with a rake. In 1989, while they were arguing in front of a shopping center, Allen shot and killed Leathers. Leathers herself also had history of violence, and had a conviction for stabbing a woman to death. Allen and her defense team tried to use Leathers’ previous convictions to make a self defense argument, but that was shot down by the courts.
33. Floyd Medlock (1990-2001, lethal injection): 7 year old Katherine Busch went to visit her family's old apartment, which Medlock was residing in, by herself. Busch knocked on the door and Medlock let her inside after she begged for food. He then choked and sexually assaulted the girl, dunked her head in a toilet bowl, and stabbed her to death. The body was hidden in a nearby dumpster. Busch's grandmothers were staunch pro capital punishment and anti death penalty activists respectively, and their public feud over Medlock's sentence and execution attracted some media attention. Medlock also had an extensive criminal history despite being only 19 at the time of Busch's murder, and was previously arrested several times for indecent exposure, arson, armed robbery, and marijuana possession.
34. Dion Smallwood (1992-2001, lethal injection): Smallwood walked into the home of his ex girlfriend's adoptive stepmother, 68 year old Lois Frederick, without invitation. He had a tumultuous and often violent relationship with her adopted stepdaughter that she strongly opposed, and they broke up under her pressure. After an argument, Smallwood knocked Frederick unconscious with a croquet mallet, locked her in a car, and burned her alive in it.
35. Mark Fowler (1985-2001, lethal injection): To get back at his ex employers for firing him, Fowler and his partner, Billy Fox, stormed a supermarket that he used to work out. The pair rounded up 3 employees, Chumpon Chaowasin, a 44 year old Thai immigrant, 33 year old Rick Cast, and 27 year old John Barrier, at gun point. Their hostages were shot, clubbed, and stabbed to death, and they took over $2,7000 in cash and checks.
36. Billy Fox (1985-2001, lethal injection): Fox assisted the above mentioned Mark Fowler in robbing a supermarket and murdering 3 of its employees
37. Loyd Lafevers (1985-2001, lethal injection): Lafevers and his accomplice, Randall Cannon, kidnapped 84 year old Addie Hawley from her home. She was raped, trapped in the trunk of a car, and burned alive in it. Although she was rescued, Hawley died from her injuries 6 hours later. The pair stole Hawley's wedding ring and Lafevers gifted it to a stripper. As Hawley's nephew was a Colorado state senator, her murder gained some attention from media outlets.
38. Dorsie Jones Jr. (1979-2001, lethal injection): While drinking at a bar, a barmaid chastised Jones for carrying an unconcealed gun. He shot at her in a fit of rage, but missed and injured his female companion instead. Jones then turned his attention to the other patrons and fired on them. 48 year old Stanley Buck Sr. was killed in front of his 19 year old son, who was also wounded in the shooting.
39. Robert Clayton (~1980s-2001, lethal injection): Clayton attacked 19 year old Rhonda Timmons while she was sunbathing near her apartment. She was raped, stabbed, kicked in the head, and strangled to death with her swimming suit. Her husband found Timmons' body laying next to their infant daughter, who was left unharmed. Clayton had a previous rape conviction in Tennessee and a robbery conviction in Texas.
40. Ronald Fluke (1997-2001, lethal injection): Out of despair that his gambling addiction drove his family to near poverty, Fluke shot and killed his wife, 44 year old Ginger, and their daughters, 13 year old Kathryn and 11 year old Susanne, while they were sleeping in their bedrooms. He initially attacked Ginger with a hatchet, but turned to shooting when she fought back.
41. Marilyn Plantz (1988-2001, lethal injection): The married girlfriend of William Bryson. As mentioned under Bryson's entry, Plantz arranged for him and his friend to kill her husband James to collect his life insurance policy.
42. Terrance James (1983-2001, lethal injection): While awaiting trial for a theft of government property charge, James and two accomplices strangled a fellow inmate, 25 year old Mark Berry, with wire out of their suspicions of him being a snitch. They then hung the body in an attempt to make it look like a suicide. Berry was another party in the theft of government property case, and James and his accomplices believed that it was his testimony that got them arrested.
43. Vincent Johnson (1991-2001, lethal injection): Johnson gunned down 44 year old Shirley Mooneyham in her home. The prosecution believed that Mooneyham's boyfriend arranged the killing to collect a life insurance policy, but he was acquitted at trial.
44. Jerald Harjo (~1980s-2001, lethal injection): Harjo snuck into the bedroom of 64 year old Ruth Porter, raped her, and suffocated her with a pillowcase. He then snatched Porter's car keys and drove off with her van. His past criminal history was extensive, and was in prison numerous times for burglary and autotheft.
45. Jack Walker (1988-2001, lethal injection): Disgruntled with the custody dispute over their then 3 month old son, Walker stabbed his ex girlfriend, 17 year old Shelly Ellison, and her uncle, 30 year old Donald, 32 and 11 times with an ice pick during a confrontation at their home.
46. Alvie Hale Jr. (1983-2001, lethal injection): Hale kidnapped 24 year old William Perry to extort a $350,000 ransom from his banking family. When the negotiations failed, Perry was shot dead, and Hale buried the body on his father's property.
47. Lois Smith (1982-2001, lethal injection): Smith, her son, and a female accomplice abducted her son's ex girlfriend, 21 year old Cindy Baillee, from an airport out of fear her testifying of his involvement in the drug trade. Baillee was taken to Smith's ex husband's house, and stabbed in the throat by her ex boyfriend while driving to their destination. Inside the home, she was taunted by Smith with a gun, and was shot 7 times in the chest and 2 times in the back of the head. While her son was reloading the gun, Smith jumped on and crushed Bailee's throat.
48. Sahib Lateef Al-Mosawi (1992-2001, lethal injection): Following a dispute over their newborn son's name, Al-Mosawi's estranged wife, 26 year old Inaam Al-Nashi, fled to the apartment of her uncle, 45 year old Mohammed. Al-Mosaw attacked the pair in the apartment and stabbed them to death. Inaam's sister was also stabbed, but she managed to escape with her life. The couple and their families were refugees from Iraq that were displaced by the First Persian Gulf War, and they fled into the United States.
49. John Romano (1985-2002, lethal injection): Romano and his accomplice David Woodruff robbed and murdered two of their acquaintances. One of the victims, 63 year old Lloyd Thompson, was attacked in his apartment. Thompson was held down by the pair while they stabbed him 22 times and served his spinal cord. The other victim, 52 year old Roger Sarfaty, was tied up, beaten, stabbed 5 times, and strangled to death in a jewelry store he owned. In the robberies, Romano and Woodruff stole several pieces of jewelry from Sarfaty, and took most of Thompson’s quarter collection.
50. David Woodruff (1985-2002, lethal injection): As mentioned under John Romano's entry, Woodruff took part in the robbery murders of Lloyd Thompson and Roger Sarfaty.
51. Randall Cannon (1985-2002, lethal injection): Cannon assisted Loyd Lafevers in abducting, sexually assaulting, and burning Addie Hawley alive in her car. Although he was acquitted of molesting Hawley, Cannon was still condemned for his part in the kidnapping and murder.
52. Earl Frederick Sr. (~1989-2002, lethal injection): Frederick beat Bradford Beck, a 41 year old veteran that was crippled during his service in the Vietnam war, to death in his home after befriending him. He ransacked the house and dumped Beck's body in a field. A second murder, the robbery and shooting death of a Texan man, 77 year old Shirley Fox, was also tied to him. However, authorities in Texas withheld from prosecuting Fredrick due to his death penalty trial and conviction in Oklahoma. Both Fox and Beck had physical disabilities, which led prosecutors to the conclusion that Frederick intentionally selected and depredated on disabled men.
53. Jerry McCracken (~1980s(?)-2002, lethal injection): McCracken and his accomplice shot up a bar, killed 3 patrons and the bartender, and made off with $350. The victims that lost their lives were 41 year old Carol McDaniels, 37 year old Timothy Sheets, 34 year old Steven Sheets, and 27 year old Tyrrell Boyd. Months before the mass shooting, McCracken was paroled after serving time for stabbing 3 people in a bar fight.
54. Jay Neill (1984-2002, lethal injection): During a bank robbery, Neill disemboweled and nearly decapitated 3 tellers, 42 year old Kay Bruno, 25 year old Joyce Mullenix, and 19 year old Jerri Bowles. A group of 4 customers, consisting of 33 year old Ralph Zeller, a married couple, and their 14 month old daughter, unwittingly walked in on him, and he herded them into a backroom to be shot. Zeller was killed, the couple were wounded, and Neill left the daughter unharmed due to running out of bullets. Neill's boyfriend was given a life sentence for the robbery and murders, despite not being directly involved.
55. Ernest Carter Jr. (~1989-2002, lethal injection): After being fired from an autoshop, Carter robbed it with an accomplice, and fatally shot a security guard, 35 year old Eugene Manowski. The pair stole the shop's tow truck, and later tried to burn it with Carter's girlfriend to destroy any traces of the crime. Carter was also previously accused of burning a friend to death in the previous year, but the charges were dismissed.
56. Daniel Revilla (1987-2003, lethal injection): While babysitting his girlfriend's son, 13 month old Mark Gomez, in their home, Revilla broke the boy’s ribs in a beating and scalded him with boiling water. When he brought the boy to a hospital, Revilla gave a story that he accidentally hit Gomez’s head with a door handle, which was quickly seen through by the staff. According to the accounts of his girlfriend and her family, Revilla was violently abusive to Gomez, and they recounted incidents of him trapping the boy in a kitchen drawer, dunking him in cold water, folding him into a pull up bed, and hanging him by his ankles with duct tape.
57. Bobby Fields (~1990s-2003, lethal injection): Fields shot and killed 77 year old Louise Schem while burglarizing her home. She had tried to shot him with her .25 calibre pistol, but he wrestled the gun away from her, and gunned her down with it. His intentions was to steal Schem's television set to sell for cocaine, but left empty handed after losing his nerves with the struggle and murder. According to court documents, Fields had a previous robbery and assault conviction, and several arrests for drug possession.
58. Walanzo Robinson (1989-2003, lethal injection): A member of the Gangster Bloods street gang, Robinson shot and killed 26 year old Dennis Hill, an affiliate of a rival gang, in a turf war over drug sales.
59. John Hooker (~1971-2003, lethal injection): As a teenager in 1971, Hooker attended a party at a friend's house, and got into an argument. In a fit of anger, he fatally shot 18 year old Alta Lang, and wounded two other partygoers. Due to the witnesses refusing to cooperate with the investigation and being unable to prove any calculated intentions, Hooker was given a manslaughter conviction, and released a few years later. After he was paroled, Hooker started dating Sylvia Stokes, and fathered several children with her. Their troubled relationship lasted for 8 years, and ended when Stokes filed a protection order against him. In retaliation, Hooker lured Stokes and her mother, 53 year old Durcilla Morgan, into his apartment and stabbed them both to death.
60. Scot Hain (~1980s-2003, lethal injection): Hain carjacked and abducted a couple, 27 year old Michael Houghton and 22 year old Laura Sanders. After taking $565 and some bags of clothing, he forced them into the trunk of their car at gunpoint, and burned them alive in it. He had several previous arrests for robbery, and was involved with a number of rapes and attempted kidnappings months before the Houghton and Sanders' murders.
61. Don Hawkins Jr. (1985-2003, lethal injection): Hawkins kidnapped 29 year old Linda Ann Thompson and her two daughters, aged 4 years old and 18 months old, from a mall. Although his original intentions were to ransom off Thompson and her children, Hawkins gang raped the captive woman with his cousin and his girlfriend's teenage nephew, and drowned her in a lake. Thompson's children were spared and simply left with a babysitter. Hawkins and his accomplice then went on a nation wide rampage with his accomplice that involved the abductions and rapes of several grown women and teenage girls, hanging 31 year old David Coupez of Colorado in his home while robbing him, and countless other robberies.
62. Larry Jackson (~1984-2003, lethal injection): In 1984, Jackson shot and killed his girlfriend, 19 year old Freda Washington. He accepted a plea deal that dumbed down the charges to second degree murder, and was given a 30 year sentence for it. During his incarceration, Jackson started a relationship with 29 year old Wendy Cade. Despite her promises of marriage after his release, Cade left him for another man, and they got engaged. When Jackson was assigned to a prison work crew, he snuck out and went to confront Cade. Reportedly, the two had bought alchool, cocaine, and cigerates together and had sex in Cade's apartment. However, they got into an argument, and he slashed Cade's throat and stabbed her 31 times with box cutters. Jackson then left with her jewelry, watch, and the keys to her jeep.

Origins of the Neon God
Sacrificed in the name of progress, the Vermin God and Iron Goddess were desecrated, defiled, murdered. Their souls torn asunder, then reforged in neon a thousand times over into a blasphemous amalgamation. Ten thousand souls, every day, feed this insidious spirit abomination so that humanity may leap across star systems in moments, communicate at extreme distances, and harness the memories of billions of dead souls for insight.
The Neon Age was when people discovered a strange electromagnetic field that stems from the mind that can only be detected by the use of neon. Most people, when surrounded by neon, give off a dim glow that can only be seen by special cameras. But if you train your mind you'll start making a visible light appear in nearby neon gas.
With enough training one can reshape these lights into strange beings called sparklers that can physically touch and manipulate anything within reach of the neon gas, but they can also jump from cloud of neon to cloud of neon instantaneously, regardless of the distance between them. These sparklers seem to be tireless, strong, and in some cases, independent.
A person also can access the neon cloud by connecting with neon wires, tubes of plasteel that pump neon gas through to pick up the electromagnetic waves that neon mages give off. The neon cloud is a tank of neon gas that has contained and converted billions of souls into a complex computer. This includes the souls of the Iron Goddess and the Vermin God. This is the Neon God.
Magic system
As described before, neon interacts with a particular type of electromagnetic wave that comes from the mind. Through exposure to neon one is able to slowly learn to grow their output and even shape these waves and manipulate the neon around them.
This has led to the creation of neon wires and their use as whiplike weapons that neon mages can manipulate mentally. These whips can output thousands of pounds of kinetic force in explosive pulses if weilded by experienced neon mages.
Neon mages also create sparklers that can manifest anywhere there is neon gas. Though some more experienced neon mages can force these sparklers outside of neon gas, though their ability to influence the physical world is greatly reduced.
Neon mages also man titans, large mecha that use neon wires control their movements. The neon mages interact with a spirit "Ai", a piece of the Neon God cut off to assist in manipulation of the titan.
Neon mages also use a form of meditation in a chamber of neon gas to connect to other neon mages lightyears away. They can communicate important information across the galaxy in real time, like living phones. Of course neon is still not oxygen so they need to leave these chambers eventually or have special injections of oxygen into their circulatory system.
The only thoughts I have on the dangers of being a neon mage are that the stronger the mage gets, the more neon will "pull" on their electromagnetic waves, essentially causing skips in mental processes while in the presence of neon. And the more powerful you are, the more potent these skips will be.

I upgraded, right after the prices were halved for EOD owners of the game, just to get the taste of PVE.
The matching times now are quite tricky, I back-out if matching lasts for more than 1 minute and start again. In a few tries I get into the game. Last time I played from 07h in the morning until 12 in the afternoon and it was amazing. I played more than 10 raids and each raid I had at least 10+ kills with also some Bears and USECs.
I am really pumped for the future updates to PVE, a possible BeaUSEC karma system that will create possible teamplays similar to friendly scav plays.
I am really enjoying Tarkov now, and paying an extra 60 eur, was totally worth it for the game like that. I have a feeling I'm actually playing a new game and enjoying it to the fullest. I was always the true believer in the genre that BSG created, obviously they needed a new financial injection to be able to finish the game and slowly mark the release of the final game. I think they deserve it, for what they created with the community. I don't think that the release of the signature edition was a scam of any kind either.
I will not be playing any of these Tarkov clones, like Garys Zone or Infinite Arena Breakout or whatnot. The only clone that I truly enjoyed was Zero Sievert. For me, the Tarkov experience bought me years ago and since then it's been my fave choice.
Thank you BSG and thank you u/trainfender for such an awesome game! Keep up the good work!