Irony - to thine own self be true
From Seattle's
Post-Intelligencer:
Rapist asks for death, fears rape in prison
A Seattle man who'd admitted to raping two women at Myrtle Edwards Park was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday.
Earlier this year, Angel Galvan-Hernandez pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree rape in the separate August 2007 attacks at the waterfront park.
In both attacks, Galvan-Hernandez, 26, was accused of beating and choking his victims as he forced himself on them.
Speaking in King County Superior Court, Galvan-Hernandez pleaded with Judge Julie Spector to have him executed rather than send him to prison.
In a turn characterized by Spector, without humor, as "ironic," Galvan-Hernandez begged not to be sent to prison where he believes he will be raped.
"I prefer death a thousand times over being raped," said Galvan-Hernandez.
Sometimes these stories just write themselves. Talk about not thinking through the consequences of ones actions...
Posted by DaveH at March 4, 2009 11:09 AM