Daughter Convicted of Attempted Murder Says Mom Wanted Me to Do It

Kimberly Hopkins pleaded guilty to zip-tying her 80-year-old mother's hands and trying to put a plastic bag with helium over her head. In October 2019, she was convicted of attempted first-degree murder. But in a recent Tennessee parole hearing, Hopkins claims that her mother asked her to to do it. "I would never have done anything that I did without my mother’s permission." Hopkins apparently used the book FINAL EXIT to make the planned death look like a suicide. But what Hopkins did is very different from the inert gas bag method used by the Final Exit Network. Their exit guides do not handle the inert gas or the hood. And they certainly do not tie up the individual.
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