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So, Ariel Castro is dead...

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Oct 4, 2008
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#1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/ariel-castro-dead-cleveland-kidnapper_n_3863597.html

Thoughts? I'll share mine.

I am on the fence with this. I take no joy in anyone's death, but I am however glad he's not breathing on my dime, as cold as I realize that can sound. Hope no one thinks less of me for that...but, what doesn't sit well with me though is that he plead guilty to get the death penalty off the table, yet he does this? It makes me feel that he learned absolutely nothing, was a sadistic sociopath, and was too much of a pussy to truly "pay" for his misdoings... had he truly learned the err of his ways, he would have accepted the consequences of his actions and served just punishment (I will stop short of an eye for an eye / death penalty debate).

Had he not been caught, he'd keep on doin it all, he had no intention of ever stopping.
 
#2
I kind of look at it as poetic justice, and in a small way a win for his victims, It's apparent he couldn't handle, for what, about a week or so?, what his victims endured for ten years and survived. That makes those women way stronger than him, even though he had power over them for ten years.
 
#3
He could have at least had the courtesy to hang himself before the trial so the tax dollars would not have been wasted.

Alternatively, he could have done it at least 11 years ago so those three women would not have gone through that hell.
 
#5
Meh....

I kinda wish he could have lived long enough to truly appreciate the act of showering in prison long enough so that "Most of the sex was consensual" like the article claimed he said.
 
#12
Im with you on not wishing ill will upon anyone. But its ridiculous how much our government will support dictators and their family.
I'm not educated enough on the subject to make a valid point. But disgust with hosting dictators needs is my opinion.
I just hope his family is recovering from their loss.
 
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#14
C.Linton said:
I kind of look at it as poetic justice, and in a small way a win for his victims, It's apparent he couldn't handle, for what, about a week or so?, what his victims endured for ten years and survived. That makes those women way stronger than him, even though he had power over them for ten years.
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That's exactly what I thought when I read the news.

He clearly can couldn't handle what he was dishing out, and I'll bet his conditions were a damn sight better than those of his victims.
 
#15
brothersdavis said:
Im with you on not wishing ill will upon anyone. But its ridiculous how much our government will support dictators and their family.
I'm not educated enough on the subject to make a valid point. But disgust with hosting dictators needs is my opinion.
I just hope his family is recovering from their loss.
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Interesting perspective on a man who held three women captive for 10 years, was convicted, and recently hung himself in his prison cell.
 
#17
His crimes were about control, and he continued to accomplish that by killing himself to remove the victims sense of justice. They can no longer back in the glory that he is getting his.

AFA wasting tax dollars to house him - I think money should be a non issue. It costs far more in court costs to put someone to death than to house them for 40 years. The punishment IMO is about society's demand for retribution and it's significance to the people as a whole - money is secondary. That's why we have the death penalty despite it's higher costs.
 

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