Coward!

[jd_1984]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ariel-castro-found-dead-live-2248768

[daffy654]

He has saved the US taxpayer a fortune. Good riddance to bad rubbish I say.

[jd_1984]

He cut a deal to avoid the death penalty and does this though?

[ummmm]

Hard to say. I've never delved into his mind.

[ChillDoubt]

Result.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, this is one of those occasions you would like to see the man rot in Jail. He had no chance of parole so his victims could have been confident of no repeat attack.

On the other hand, saved the Septics a fortune.

[Bazile]

Coward ? - well yes i'd me a coward at the prospect of serving 1000 years in prison

[anneasquith]

best decision he's made in years.

[ToraToraTora]

Result really, if it had been a British jail he'd have lived a life of luxury, at least the septics know how to run a proper jail.

[jim360]

If they knew how to run the jail that well they'd have been paying enough attention to stop him from hanging himself.

[Canary42]

Obviously murdered - usual USA vigilantism instead of rule of law.

[andy-hughes]

Are we really going to gloat over the death of this inidividual?

I would not want for one moment to diminish the seriousness of his crimes, or the lifetime of suffering he has caused but -

in a civilised society, the law passes sentence, and the sentence is completed - in this case by natural death.

It is no kind of 'victory' or 'justice' that this man has died prematurely - just another sad chapter in a tragic situation.

[ToraToraTora]

It's pretty well akin to the gloating over the death of our greatest peace time leader Andy so not sure why you find it distasteful, it seemed to be ok a few months ago.

[baza]

good result I reckon, over here we give child killers 4 new identities and let them loose without even a tag.

[youngmafbog]

Well said TTT; but then you must realize what the pinko right-on brigade on here are like!!

[jim360]

Oh, look at that. Youngmafbog using another death to score a pathetic political point!

The man has escaped his punishment now, that's nothing to be celebrated, although I won't shed a single tear over his passing either. But the job of a good prison is to see that a sentence is served. The prison wardens signally failed to do so now that he has been able to kill himself.

[ChillDoubt]

The man has escaped his punishment now
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So what's your stance when a death sentence IS imposed and carried out, in those states in the USA that use it?
Are they deemed to have received right and just punishment then?

Just asking.

[mikey4444]

This man seems to have done everybody a favour, by saving the state all the costs of keeping himself alive for the next few years. Nothing else to add really.

[jim360]

If you mean "do I support the Death Penalty?", no, I don't. For that matter the sentence given to Ariel Castro was pretty pointless. Life with no parole is all he can serve, so why add the thousand years on top of that? If it was meant to be a statement it's a pretty pointless one, given that you can never serve more than life by definition. I thought it was silly.

[ToraToraTora]

In the US system they do not add N years on top they merely give out the sentence by totting up the senetences for the offences. Human longevity is not relevant to that. Unlike the UK they rarely use concurrent sentencing that's why it's not uncommon to see many hundreds of years sentencing. We could learn something here, 368 burgalries at 6 months each? that's 184 years with 50% off for good behaviour!.