Posted on 04/13/2005 10:43:37 AM PDT by RansomOttawa
German cannibal Armin Meiwes is back in court where an appeal is being heard almost 15 months after he was imprisoned for eight and a half years.
Prosecutors are pressing for him to be jailed for life, while his defence wants the sentence cut to five years.
Meiwes was jailed for manslaughter in January 2004 for killing and eating a willing victim he met via the internet.
The judge denied the prosecutors' call for a murder conviction, which would have meant a 15-year jail sentence.
Both the prosecution and the defence appealed against the manslaughter verdict.
His defence team say because the victim was a volunteer, his death was a mercy killing, carrying a penalty of five years in jail
But prosecutors call Meiwes a butcher who must be imprisioned for life.
Meiwes, a middle-aged computer technician, killed and ate Bernd Juergen Brandes after posting an advert on the internet asking for a willing victim in 2001.
The case still shocks and fascinates Germans.
It has been the subject of a song and a film script, and a documentary is in the works.
Streisand voice: "People. People who eat people. Are the luckiest people in the world . . . "
He said the fellow tasted like chicken too.
Let me go get my gun, and then he can stand in front of me and say that, and I'll take care of the whole mess.
This case is just sick, here's the original post from when it happened. Beware, the story is not for the faint of haeart.
Willing victim was eaten while still alive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035111/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1382964/posts?page=1
After reading it, imagine a family member is braindamaged, with a feeding tube, and a family member getting a court order to pull the feeding tube so they can be eaten later.
Bizarre? Hell yes, but not too unimaginable these days. Can you say, Soyent Green?
Yup, we really need to emulate those enlightened Europeans.
MM
"Meiwes, a middle-aged computer technician, killed and ate Bernd Juergen Brandes after posting an advert on the internet asking for a willing victim in 2001."
Meiwes is going to ... um ... eat those words.
"But prosecutors call Meiwes a butcher who must be imprisioned for life."
This is the type of case that a prosecutor can really sink his teeth into.
So he has a peel.
No book? Not even a "Digest" version?
15 years for murder? Is that all?
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