Olympic bomber: Supermax is driving me insane
FLORENCE, Colorado (AP) — Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph laments in a series of letters to a newspaper that the maximum-security federal prison where he is spending the rest of his life is designed to drive him insane….”It is a closed-off world designed to isolate inmates from social and environmental stimuli, with the ultimate purpose of causing mental illness and chronic physical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and arthritis,” he wrote in one letter to The Gazette of Colorado Springs. Rudolph wrote that he spends 23 hours a day in his 7-by-12-foot cell, his only exercise confined to an enclosed area he described as a “large empty swimming pool” divided into “dog-kennel style cages.”….”Using solitary confinement, Supermax is designed to inflict as much misery and pain as is constitutionally permissible,” he wrote in a letter.
Man, ya just gotta feel for the guy don’tcha? He makes a couple “mistakes”, and the next think you know he’s in a box for the rest of his life. Sucks to be him, eh?
Well, actually, he didn’t just make “a couple of ‘mistakes’”. He set off a bomb at the 1996 Olympics, killing a mother and wife. He also set off three other bombs, included one that took another life at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, AL, in 1998. You’ll have to pardon me, then, if I don’t fall over myself in sympathy for Rudolph, because if there was any justice in this world, he would have faced the death penalty- ideally, being executed by one of his own bombs.
Since Rudolph couldn’t be executed, there is no reason that his life has to be made easy or comfortable, so if he’s whining and complaining about being uncomfortable…well, that’s more than the two people he killed are now able to do.
One of Rudolph’s victims had no sympathy for him.
“It gives me a great deal of pride to think he’s never coming out of there,” said Diane Derzis, who runs a Birmingham, Alabama, women’s clinic Rudolph bombed in 1998. “He should never see daylight again.”
I couldn’t agree more…and Rudolph ought to just shut his yap. All he’s doing is putting smiles on the faces of a lot of people who find the idea of him suffering to be quite a comforting thought.
