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Death penalty banned, but Belgian lifer wants to be euthanized
A rapist and murderer is to be put to death in Belgium this week, despite Europe’s ban on the death penalty, after a court granted him the right to euthanasia.

Frank Van Den Bleeken, 52, is not physically ill but claims his “psychological suffering” is unbearable and that he would prefer to die than spend more of his life behind bars.
He's a convicted killer: since when does he get anything he wants?
His application to die was accepted by Belgium’s Federal Euthanasia Commission in September, and over the weekend, official gave approval for him to be taken to a specialist clinic on Sunday, where he will be killed by lethal injection.

He told a television documentary last year: “If people commit a sexual crime, help them to deal with it. Just locking them up helps no one - neither the individual, society or the victims.

“I am a human being, and regardless of what I’ve done, I remain a human being. So, yes, give me euthanasia.”
And a rapist and a pedophile...
Two older sisters of one of the convict's victims have previously said he should “languish in prison” rather than be allowed a swift release.

“Commissions, doctors and experts have spent so long considering the ups and downs of the life of the murderer of our sister,” one, Annie, told a Dutch newspaper. “ In all those years, no committee ever asked our parents or us how we felt.
That clearly wouldn't fit the narrative...
“No doctor or expert ever came and asked how we were. And then we hear his lawyer on the radio saying how tough it was for him to be abandoned in prison.”
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-06
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=407702