Post by Damen on Mar 19, 2009 9:26:20 GMT -5
Life, but is it justice?
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_re_eu/eu_austria_fritzl_trial
A "secure psychiatric facility." Not prison. A funny farm. How is this justice? Or even punishment? Instead of going to prison where he belongs, he's going to a place with rubber walls and a lot of doctors wanting to know if mommy ever touched him.
Granted, he's about as loony and evil as you can get, but he's about to die. Why bother with the doctors and rubber walls when all there is that's left isn't correcting his insanity but atonement for his crimes? I'm sorry, I know it's life for him and he'll never again breath free air, but I still find this to be an injustice all the same.
A bit of personal irony in this? I'm a staunch believer that a prison should be there for reform, not punishment. That's just how horrible I find this story to be.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_re_eu/eu_austria_fritzl_trial
Fritzl sentenced to life in prison in incest case
36 mins ago
ST. POELTEN, Austria – A jury has convicted Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl of homicide and sentenced him to life imprisonment in a secure psychiatric facility.
Fritzl also was convicted of enslavement, rape, incest, forced imprisonment and coercion for holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children.
Fritzl accepted Thursday's verdicts and waived his right to appeal.
The homicide count — "murder by neglect" in German — was the most serious of the charges against 73-year-old Fritzl, and the jury gave him the maximum punishment allowed by law.
The verdict brought a dramatic end to a case that has drawn worldwide attention.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
ST. POELTEN, Austria (AP) — A jury has convicted Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl of homicide for the death in captivity of one of seven children he fathered with the daughter he imprisoned for 24 years.
Jurors did not immediately pronounce a sentence Thursday, but Fritzl faces up to life imprisonment for the charge
36 mins ago
ST. POELTEN, Austria – A jury has convicted Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl of homicide and sentenced him to life imprisonment in a secure psychiatric facility.
Fritzl also was convicted of enslavement, rape, incest, forced imprisonment and coercion for holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children.
Fritzl accepted Thursday's verdicts and waived his right to appeal.
The homicide count — "murder by neglect" in German — was the most serious of the charges against 73-year-old Fritzl, and the jury gave him the maximum punishment allowed by law.
The verdict brought a dramatic end to a case that has drawn worldwide attention.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
ST. POELTEN, Austria (AP) — A jury has convicted Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl of homicide for the death in captivity of one of seven children he fathered with the daughter he imprisoned for 24 years.
Jurors did not immediately pronounce a sentence Thursday, but Fritzl faces up to life imprisonment for the charge
A "secure psychiatric facility." Not prison. A funny farm. How is this justice? Or even punishment? Instead of going to prison where he belongs, he's going to a place with rubber walls and a lot of doctors wanting to know if mommy ever touched him.
Granted, he's about as loony and evil as you can get, but he's about to die. Why bother with the doctors and rubber walls when all there is that's left isn't correcting his insanity but atonement for his crimes? I'm sorry, I know it's life for him and he'll never again breath free air, but I still find this to be an injustice all the same.
A bit of personal irony in this? I'm a staunch believer that a prison should be there for reform, not punishment. That's just how horrible I find this story to be.