Doubt there was ANY doubt. More about this “guy” (much like some cars, they want to do some work on the tranny...)
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2009/02/09/mansfield/4239108.txt
Inmate suicide raises concerns for Kosilek
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Inmate suicide raises concerns for Kosilek
Lawyers for a transgender killer from Mansfield say there are weaknesses in system that could result in another death
BOSTON - The apparent prison suicide of a cross-dressing dermatologist has exposed weaknesses in the state’s ability to prevent inmates from killing themselves, according to lawyers for a transgender convicted killer from Mansfield who has been waiting for years for a judge to rule on a request to have a sex-change operation.
Michelle Kosilek, who has said she feels distressed “every waking moment” as a woman trapped inside a man’s body, is housed in the same prison where Dr. Richard Sharpe was found hanging by a bed sheet from the top bunk last week.
Sharpe was serving a life sentence in the prison in Norfolk for killing his wife in 2000.
Kosilek, as Robert Kosilek, was convicted of murdering his wife in 1990 in their Mansfield condominium, then dumping her body at Emerald Square mall in North Attleboro. Kosilek, who was sentenced to life in prison, legally changed her name to Michelle in 1993, and has been living as a woman in the all-male lockup.
Frances Cohen, one of Kosilek’s lawyers, said Tuesday that she is concerned Sharpe found a way to commit suicide inside his cell. “The Department of Correction has consistently taken the position that they have in place adequate suicide prevention policies, and the Sharpe case shows that may not be the case,” Cohen said.
Kosilek is suing the DOC in federal court, seeking to force prison officials to arrange her sex-reassignment surgery. A trial began in May 2006, but Judge Mark Wolf has yet to issue his ruling.
Kosilek testified at the trial that she suffered from depression and had twice tried to commit suicide.
She also sent a handwritten letter to Wolf in October, saying, “no one but me truly knows the depth of my despair.”
“This pain is intimately destructive,” Kosilek wrote.
Why shouldn’t convicted murderers be allowed to commit suicide, anyway?
Don’t the libs believe everybody has a fundamental “right to die” at a time of their choosing? Especially if they are in severe pain?