Spanish authorities euthanize jailed gunman ahead of trial

[GregariousGroundhog]

Source: CNN

Spanish prison authorities on Tuesday euthanized a man who shot and wounded four people in December and was subsequently wounded in a shootout with the police, rendering him paralyzed and begging to be allowed to die while awaiting trial.

Courts allowed the man's assisted death after rejecting several appeals by his victims, who argued he should face justice. The case even reached the Constitutional Court, which refused to deliberate on it, saying there had been no violation of fundamental rights.

Disgruntled former security guard Eugen Sabau, 46, shot three of his colleagues, including a woman, at the security services firm where he worked in the northeastern city of Tarragona, and then wounded a police officer while making his escape.

Sabau died at 6.30 p.m. local time Tuesday, according to a source from the Catalan regional government.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/europe/jailed-shooter-eugen-sabau-euthanized-spain-intl-scli/index.html

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It's not in the excerpt I posted, but the article goes on to mention that Spain legalized euthanasia last year and that Sabau lost a leg and was left a quadriplegic as a result of wounds received in his shootout with the police.

[GreenWave]

1. Got to die on his own terms.

His victims also got to die on his own terms.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. None of his victims died,

it says in the story that he wounded 4 people, nothing about them dying.

[GreenWave]

13. That's where trying to read while fatigued got me.

My blunder and apologies to all who saw that.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. Hey, no problem

we've all done that a time or two.

Have a great Thrus.

[Warpy]

2. Last year? He's been a quad dealing with phantom leg pain for a year?

I think justice has been served. Let him go.

I wish the Christians weren't so scared of meeting Jesus, we might be able to get sane laws here.

[oldsoftie]

6. Let him GO? Insanity.

[Warpy]

7. He shot and wounded four people. Wounded.

Trust me, he suffered, as anyone who's ever had close contact with a quad knows all too well.

They let him go, they saved the state the cost of a trial, and they probably saved a great deal on the care he'd need for the rest of his life. Quads don't get better, you know.

Yeah, he was another damned fool who thought a gun would make things better. At least the only person who seems to have died is him. They gave him some drugs and let him suffocate. It wasn't that easy a way out, not after a year of agony.

[Tikki]

3. NO and yes.

A slippery slope and all.
These kind of actions can get blurred
within a community and put biased pressures on the legal community.

With these specifics here...it's hard not to say yes.

Tikki

[eissa]

4. At least he got to choose how he died

too bad his victims weren't given that privilege.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

12. His victims didn't die,

they were wounded, it says so right in the article.

[Mawspam2]

5. Justice would have been death by firing squad...

...or continued life in prison, not peaceful euthanasia.

Barretta rules apply: 'Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

[rpannier]

8. He didn't kill anyone

How is a firing squad justice?

[truthisfreedom]

9. People don't read headlines anymore. Or articles.

They prefer to jump to conclusions.

[JI7]

10. Too much damage and having to clean up involved in that

[itcfish]

15. Spain Does Not Have the Death Penalty

But Spaniards are open to euthanasia for the terminal and the suffering. The cases are heard in court and all the legal steps are taken. You can understand their mentality if you every saw the movie "The Sea Inside" with Javier Bardem. It won an Oscar for best foreign film (in 2004 if I remember correctly)

[GregariousGroundhog]

16. Now that you mention it, I actually remember watching that movie in high school

I studied Spanish for four years in high school also took two additional classes my freshman year in college so I could receive retroactive credits and satisfy general education requirements for writing emphasis classes.

I had one teacher in high school who would play Spanish music during activities and who liked Juanes in particular. She organized an optional field trip to a live concert in a city about an hour and half from where I grew up; I kind of regret not partaking in it. When I'm feel nostaligic, I'll sometimes pull up some of Juanes' songs on YouTube even though I've forgotten a lot of the words meaning in the decade and a half since I graduated.