Comments on: A Suicide Watch That Doesn’t Need Watching?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:48:52 +0000

When John Geoghan was murdered in custody before trial by another inmate (which some believed the prison guards deliberately allowed to happen) many people cheered. That’s understandable but I disagreed. My position was that this denied Geoghan’s victims their due process and their right to see justice properly done. While one may think that he got what he deserved, I think he got off easily and would rather have seen the law prevail.

By: Tone

Tone — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:15:53 +0000

Leaving Fritzl out of it (he should be punished just to think it over why it was wrong to capture and rape his doughter) I am suprised to here about your concern about ’suicide watch’. Isn’t life something most valuable one has and in a way his/hers most precious belonging? So in a way a person in custody is deprived of her/his right to top her/himself.
And can a state punish her/him harder? I think not. “Suicide watching” is in a way punishing somebody in a way ‘oh, no, you won’t get away with it the easy way.’
But – I see it now – it goes the same with taking suicidal people into hospitals.

By: erin

erin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:58:20 +0000

this story reminds me somewhat of fred & rosemary west of gloucester, uk. (google them) he hung himself in his prison cell rather than serve time.

By: dostoevskian table dancer

dostoevskian table dancer — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:47:31 +0000

“born to rape”- That alone is almost as horrific as the rest of the story.