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Iowa

exboyfil

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1. We had 71 murders in Iowa in 2016

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 04:55 AM

Jan 2018

you would think the legislature could find more important things to fill their time. In Iowa if you go to prison for murder, you stay in prison until you are dead or need a walker to get around.

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