Moors Murderer Ian Brady has finally died aged 79 after 51 years in prison/secure hospitals. Good riddance. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39929538

Brady was never to be released from prison and for good reasons - and he knew that and accepted that. He's wanted to die since 1999 and has tried to kill himself repeatedly by going on hunger strike but he has until today been kept alive by a feeding tube. So for 18 years at great expense to the state this piece of human excrement has been kept alive against his wishes. To be fair if he was a regular prisoner he could have gone on hunger strike and starved himself to death, but because he's considered mentally ill (for being a dangerous psychopath) he was denied that choice.

If we had the death penalty there is little doubt that Brady deserved it. We don't have it which I agree with because there is the unforgivable risk that an innocent could be killed. Brady was no innocent and he wanted to die. If the state can't kill him, we should have let him finish the job himself. If he's so desperate to die and is sentenced to life in prison then I fail to see why he should even need to go through the agony of starving himself. If he so wants it give him a cyanide capsule or whatever and let him off himself and save us the job of doing so.