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Death penalty banned, but Belgian lifer wants to be euthanized | |||
2015-01-06 | |||
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 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.”
“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.
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Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
#3 So in the public square have a big chair equipped with various spring loaded spikes. The vermin, I mean inmate, sits in the chair and holds a dead man switch that takes lots of pressure to keep closed. Strap him into chair and you will have 'assisted' in his suicide. For added fun, do heated spikes |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-01-06 19:35 |
#2 Update from An Nahar: An imprisoned Belgian serial rapist and murderer whose wish to die had been granted by doctors will not now be euthanized following a fresh medical decision, Justice Minister Koen Geens said Tuesday. Frank Van Den Bleeken, who has spent 26 years in jail for repeated rapes and a rape-murder, will be moved from his prison in the northwestern city of Bruges to a new psychiatric treatment centre in Ghent, the minister said in a statement. Geens "takes note of the decision of doctors treating Mr Frank Van Den Bleeken to no longer continue the euthanasia procedure," the minister said in a statement. He gave no reason for the decision, citing medical privacy. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-01-06 12:11 |
#1 I'd have executed him. In the public square. But since they don't allow capital punishment, I guess assisted suicide would do. It's a waste of resources to keep him alive, and besides, he could escape or be released ... |
Posted by: Glenmore 2015-01-06 09:51 |