I appears that for all of his fighting of the death penalty, Ariel Castro was fine doing it on his own:
The Cleveland man who kidnapped three women and sexually assaulted them for decades in his basement was found dead in his jail cell Tuesday night after an apparent suicide.
A statement from the Ohio Department of Corrections said Ariel Castro, 53, was found hanging in his cell at the Correctional Reception Center in the town of Orient at 9:20 p.m. local time. After prison medical staff attempted to perform life-saving measures, Castro was transferred to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, where he was pronounced dead at 10:52 p.m.
This was both more humane than keeping him alive in a cage until he expired on his own, and of course beats of the cost of feeding and watering him for decades.
Good job guy! You will be remembered for evil, but your last deed was a good one!
I have to disagree. I was rather hoping he’d accidentally end up with a few gentlemen from general population slipping into his cell for some disfiguringly good times. Oh well, I hope he fucked it up and died rather slowly.
Hopefully ‘the sisters’ had some fun with him in the laundry room first.
Couldn’t have taken more than 30 minutes, because that’s the interval they were checking up on him.
He did what our lame justice system is afraid or unable to do. Good riddance!
I also have to disagree, and for different reasons than Roadkill above.
This was a coward’s move, and an appropriate ending to a coward’s life.
For all his pleading against the death penalty, he did NOT want to spend one day with the general population of a maximum security prison. Reportedly, even the CONVICTS have a rather dim view of rapists and child molesters – which Castro was both – and very few moral objections to exacting their own brand of … call it “karmic comeuppance.”
Either way, society and the justice system would’ve sentenced him to death, or life in prison. Castro refused to face either one. Good riddance, but I still call him a coward.
“This was both more humane than keeping him alive in a cage until he expired on his own, and of course beats of the cost of feeding and watering him for decades.”
Umm… he DID expire on his own. We just didn’t have to wait as long as we thought we would. 😉
DWH
Assuming that the initial reports are correct, and that he did expire without assistance or encouragement: this is not really too unpredictable. He was never going to get to torment or torture another girl. He would never again get to enjoy anything that had brought him pleasure.
What, did he have to look forward to? What did he have to live for? The guy was a sociopath (easily bored), and had nothing to look forward to except a life of boredom and terror.
I’d say he made a rational choice.
I 100% agree! One of my big reasons for supporting the death penalty is that it is MORE humane than life in prison. I don’t really see execution as “more just” than life in prison on its face. IMHO so long as the person is away from society, and can do no further harm, justice is served, and just a painless and respectful execution is just more humane than letting them grow old in a cage.
Still when you look DEEPER into prisons, prisoners DO commit further crimes and harm other people. They commit crimes in prison, and they harm other inmates and guards.
Another reason to quietly put them in the ground.