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In reply to the discussion: Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro found hanged in prison cell [View all]liberalhistorian
(20,822 posts)absurd, nutball, STRETCH of a comparison that I have EVER heard in my life, and I've heard some doozies, believe me.
Secondly, you are a total hypocrite because if it had been a woman who'd had an abortion or a doctor who'd performed one, you'd be cheering it on.
Now, I agree with you that I take no pleasure in this man's suicide and that every life is ultimately important, no one is an island and all that. And I'm also totally against the death penalty no matter who it is. But that doesn't mean that I'm gonna mourn in sackcloth and ashes over it, either, frankly. Although I do think it would have been far worse of a punishment for him to spend the rest of his miserable life in cramped captivity, like he had no problem with subjecting his victims to. He probably figured that, too, which is why he did what he did.