Assuming that he wasn't actually murdered, I think this is probably the cleanest outcome that could have occurred.
Three Women Found After Being Abducted Over 10 Years Ago
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Disgustipated
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It's better this way. He saved the state countless appeals, and the entire process of putting someone to death (10+ years in many cases)
I'm playing devil's advocate, I'm not actually defending this guy. But perhaps he is a sex addict (which was his explanation of why he did the kidnappings in the first place), and just couldn't live without sex.
Rashiminos
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I believe that question has been answered by your previous post.
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I thought you left the forum?
Disgustipated
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I am gone. If you had read the post carefully, you'd notice I'd stop in from time to time when I had time.
Well, I guess he's served his life sentences already. He's still got another ~999 years to go though. Law-and-order types had better be angry if he gets released early because of something as trivial as "death".
Seriously, why do we sentence people to terms many times greater than anyone has ever lived, often on top of life sentences without parole? Does this serve some sort of weird symbolic function for us?
Seriously, why do we sentence people to terms many times greater than anyone has ever lived, often on top of life sentences without parole? Does this serve some sort of weird symbolic function for us?
Rashiminos
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I guess it gets worse if you believe in reincarnation-- He'll be back.
Ariel Castros prison suicide under review
Ohios prison system is reviewing how Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro perhaps the most notorious figure behind bars in the state managed to hang himself with a bedsheet while in protective custody.
Castro was a month into his life sentence for holding three women captive in his home for a decade when he committed suicide Tuesday night. Protective custody involves checks every 30 minutes.
Castro, 53, had been taken off suicide watch while in county jail and was in protective custody in prison, a status reserved for high-profile inmates who could be in danger from other inmates.
As part of that status, he was in a cell by himself being checked every 30 minutes at an inmate intake prison south of Columbus,...
Residents in the westside Cleveland neighbourhood where three women were secretly imprisoned reacted with scorn and grim satisfaction Wednesday to Castros death.
He took the cowards way out, said Elsie Cintron, who lived up the street from the former school bus driver. Were sad to hear that hes dead, but at the same time, were happy hes gone, and now we know he cant ask for an appeal or try for one if hes acting like hes crazy.
Even the prosecutor joined in.
This man couldnt take, for even a month, a small portion of what he had dished out for more than a decade, said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty.
Ohios prison system is reviewing how Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro perhaps the most notorious figure behind bars in the state managed to hang himself with a bedsheet while in protective custody.
Castro was a month into his life sentence for holding three women captive in his home for a decade when he committed suicide Tuesday night. Protective custody involves checks every 30 minutes.
Castro, 53, had been taken off suicide watch while in county jail and was in protective custody in prison, a status reserved for high-profile inmates who could be in danger from other inmates.
As part of that status, he was in a cell by himself being checked every 30 minutes at an inmate intake prison south of Columbus,...
Residents in the westside Cleveland neighbourhood where three women were secretly imprisoned reacted with scorn and grim satisfaction Wednesday to Castros death.
He took the cowards way out, said Elsie Cintron, who lived up the street from the former school bus driver. Were sad to hear that hes dead, but at the same time, were happy hes gone, and now we know he cant ask for an appeal or try for one if hes acting like hes crazy.
Even the prosecutor joined in.
This man couldnt take, for even a month, a small portion of what he had dished out for more than a decade, said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty.
Berzerker
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thats why god invented prostitutes
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Actually, yes; I find offense to this.
"psycho" simply means someone that is mentally ill, which I am.
I have never hurt anybody. I've never done anything even 1/100th as bad as what this man did, even while fully delusional and literally believing the C.I.A. had planted a chip inside of my mind. No I'm not excusing/justifying his actions, quite the opposite.
I'm saying his mental illness is irrelevant here. He has no one to blame but himself for the pain he's caused for others.
It's really quite amazing, but only a teeeny subset of the schizophrenic are criminally dangerous. The rate at which they're criminally dangerous is not much different from 'non-schizophrenics'.
Useless is talking about "psychics", not "psychos". He is referring to people like Sylvia Browne, who told Amanda Berry's mother that she was dead.
Umm, didn't he know there's an Internet for that?
I don't accept that excuse as genuine. I would, however, accept an excuse along the lines of 'I am addicted to kidnapping and raping women for years on end'. That, at least, passes the smell test.
Narz
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Horrible but this type of thing happens all the time I'm sure. A few months ago I read in the paper about some guys who held captive three old disabled men & stole their social secuirty checks for a few years. Probably there is a situation like this (if not more than one) going on in every big city in America as we speak. Cops need to take this sort of thing seriously & have a task force dedicated to it. Perhaps when weed becomes legalized they'll be more forces available to stop horrendous crimes like this. Be an interesting case-study to see whether crime goes down in CO & WA now. /tangent
Narz!!! \o/
