gay aspie burned alive at his 18th birthday party

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what the actual f**k. I really don't know what to do with this. this is the first time I've ever even seen someone so much like me in the news.

edit: the judge called it "good natured horseplay" and the murderer is getting out in 3 1/2 years.

How utterly, appallingly wicked and vicious. That poor, poor man.

good lord that's f***ing horrific. 3 and a half years for taking the life of another human in a painful and agonizing way.

i am quite jaded but this story made me sick to my stomach.

Disgusting.

WHAT. THE. F***! !! !! !! !

Manslaughter? MY ASS. That man is a murderer and deserves to rot in prison for the remainder of his sad life. Does the victim not have any family who cared about him enough to prosecute the monster to the fullest extent of the law?

This story made me so sad...

Scary how impulsive and ignorant a group of kids can be. It's a shame none of his friends helped him out. He could have lived, at least.

I'll bet the perp thought it was funny as he doused Simpson. And, I'd bet he thought he was funny when he set Simpson alight and ran off. He probably snickered about it with he friends the next day. I wonder if he thought is was funny the day after that when Simpson was died. Probably not, but only because he knew he was caught.

Three years is a joke, but after all, killing a r*tard isn't the same as killing a normal person. If Simpson didn't want to die then he shouldn't have acted like a f*g. He brought it on himself. [/sarcasm]

Sometimes, I think the backwards countries in the world which practice "an eye for an eye" are wise.

The man is charged with manslaughter? And he only gets 3.5 years? It seems like a mere "slap on the wrist". This man should be charged as a coldblooded murderer. What a sad and unjust world we live in.

The judge is an idiot. Did the killer have rich parents who paid off the system?
In the US, we would have hung his A$$ gave him hard time, not a slap on the wrist.

So idiot judge locks him up so that in 3 years he'll be out to kill more people. Disgusting

Bear in mind, the one who lit the match was not the same person who doused him in tanning oil.

Do you know which tanning oils are flammable and which are not? If you slather yourself in olive oil and stand near a candle flame will you combust? If you douse yourself in ethyl alcohol will it burn long enough to cause significant damage? Do you know how to stop, drop and roll? How close can a flame get to a person covered in tanning oil before it will reach a flash point? How might any of these variables have played a role in the decision making (or lack thereof) on the part of the accused?

What is the difference between a sentence of 3 years and a sentence of 20 years? Neither will bring the victim back and both will, I suggest, provide the same specific deterrent. We are not dealing with a habitual criminal in danger of recidivism. We are dealing with a stupid, reckless, self-centred adolescent. We are dealing with someone who's life will be irretrievably changed by this misadventure. But 20 years imprisonment will do nothing more than the three to which he has been sentenced to rehabilitate him. So why waste the time, money and effort on the longer sentence? Merely to slake the public's ill-formed sense that 3 is not enough?

Armchair jurists are making an enormous number of assumptions here and they do not serve the best interests of anyone involved. Yes, a young man died, and died under tragic circumstances. Was their intent to kill? Was their intent to cause bodily harm? Was this a matter of recklessness? Was there alcohol involved? Did the amount of alcohol serve to diminish a specific intent required for murder to a general intent sufficient only for manslaughter? The judge has the benefit of years of legal experience, and more importantly having heard all the evidence that was presented to him. (Bear in mind, that with a guilty plea to manslaughter and the prosecutor's decision not to pursue murder, the judge had a very narrow discretion to act).

The mob is baying for blood, and it sickens me almost as much as the offender's crime.

my gut reaction to any story from the Daily Mail is to not believe it, or to believe that it was embellished or falsified in some way. but i've checked this story out, and it's pretty accurate. how horrible.