Recently there was very tragic case of a murder and rape of a 9 year old girl in the Czech Republic. I was quite surprised how many people in the discussions under the articles at news sites were so sure and certain, that when the guy, who did it, gets to the prison, the other inmates will kill him for sure - we do not have death penalty in our law system.
Where does this certainity come from? From movies, literature, or whatever? I tried to do a little research if there were actual cases in the news, that the inmates killed pedophiles who murder their victims, but could not found any... (well Googling is not proper "research", but I wanted to find at least one recent case).
Well the other thing which crossed my mind was, that the other half of the pople in the discussion, who did not wish this guy a murder from inmates were quite specific and VERY detailed in what THEY would personally do to the murderer... some things, which they described were quite atrocities and you have to have a quite imagination to come up with this... Anyway it reminded me Foucault and his Disciplnie and Punish and that many people nowadays - even in so called Western Civilization - are thinking in a way of medieval torture.
Of course I disagree with the whole idea of murdering little children, but these two ideas crossed my mind, when reading the discussion under the articles concerning this case.
Update (25/3/2011): So according to the media the supposed murderer was found after unsuccesful attempt of suicide with damage of his brain and day after this he died in hospital. So... the questions are a) was he really the one and b) had the inmate something to do with this?
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