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Mike Nelson here.
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Ariel Castro, Cleveland abductor, dies in prison hanging

Ariel Castro, the former Cleveland bus driver who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade before one escaped and exposed their plight, has died from an apparent hanging while serving life in prison.

Castro, 53, was found hanged in his cell around 9:20 p.m. ET Tuesday at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, a community south of Columbus in central Ohio, JoEllen Smith, of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said early Wednesday.

Castro was also watched closely in Cuyahoga County Jail in the several weeks after his arrest and before his case was resolved by a guilty plea, with logs noting his activity every 10 minutes. He was taken off county jail suicide watch in early June after authorities determined he was not a suicide risk.

Castro's attorneys tried unsuccessfully to have a psychological examination of Castro done at the Cuyahoga County Jail, where Castro was housed before he was turned over to state authorities following his conviction, his attorney, Jaye Schlachet, told The Associated Press early Wednesday. Schlachet said he could not immediately comment further.

In an interview last month after Castro's conviction, Schlachet and attorney Craig Weintraub said their client clearly fit the profile of sociopathic disorder and that they hoped researchers would study him for clues that could be used to stop other predators.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/09/04/ariel-castro-cleveland-abductor-dead.html

it's time to end the stigma of sociopathy.

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political car tune
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I was surprised there wasn't a thread about this back when it went down, but I think the Tsarnev stuff overshadowed it nationally. I still, personally, can't even effectively process what he did to those women. I think what overshadows all the individual crimes was the added theft of their time, stealing a decade from each.
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mods ban this chucklefuck
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Mike Nelson here.
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i was watching a thing a few weeks ago and in it a priest said that in dante's inferno satan isn't presented as some hyperactive evildoer but rather as a beast deep alone in hell that rarely moves. like true evil isn't some bold excited scheme to destroy humanity, true evil is sluggish and indulgent. we've got to take responsibility for our actions but ultimately the scariest part is that evil comes from weakness and error, in depraved concessions to sadness, not really from people who set out to be evil in a fully planned way. which is why getting really angry at specific criminals seems mistaken, if understandable, because the problem is way deeper and more pervasive than some small supposed group of sociopaths.
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seems like God abducted Satan and stuck him in a basement for all eternity, makes you think
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libelous_slander posted:

I was surprised there wasn't a thread about this back when it went down, but I think the Tsarnev stuff overshadowed it nationally. I still, personally, can't even effectively process what he did to those women. I think what overshadows all the individual crimes was the added theft of their time, stealing a decade from each.



he did nothing to those women that the American justice system doesnt do several million times a day

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tardy on these heaters
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i dont even know what he did but hes a fat spic and i hope he burns in hell!
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the only thing that should be burning is those excess pounds tom! shake some steel, perfect yourself, live in glorious victory over your own weakness
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i told my dad this happened and he seemed to think this was george zimmerman
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getfiscal posted:

i told my dad this happened and he seemed to think this was george zimmerman



i can see why, there's only so many examples of the white american justice system persecuting minority Hispanic men before they all blur into one

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my mom already trolled me about this so it didn't work. She said "did you hear about how that Castro guy died?" and my heart skipped a beat.
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tentativelurkeraccount posted:

my mom already trolled me about this so it didn't work. She said "did you hear about how that Castro guy died?" and my heart skipped a beat.



hahahah yeah she pulled the old pregnancy scare on me last week, great troll

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