As reported >here<, Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper and notorious mass murderer has died.
He was insane in a manner which didn't spare him the weight of the law.
And he was reported to have heard Jesus saying he approved of what Sutcliffe did. If you read what Sutcliffe is actually recorded as saying, it's not quite like that ─ rather, on more than one occasion in a cemetery he felt very strongly that one of the gravestones was communicating an approval of that kind to him, in association with the conviction that it represented Jesus' approval.
But one way or another he brought questions of human justice into a particular focus, and if you're a believer, his death raises questions of supernatural justice as well.
Where do mass murderers go when they die?
He was insane in a manner which didn't spare him the weight of the law.
And he was reported to have heard Jesus saying he approved of what Sutcliffe did. If you read what Sutcliffe is actually recorded as saying, it's not quite like that ─ rather, on more than one occasion in a cemetery he felt very strongly that one of the gravestones was communicating an approval of that kind to him, in association with the conviction that it represented Jesus' approval.
But one way or another he brought questions of human justice into a particular focus, and if you're a believer, his death raises questions of supernatural justice as well.
Where do mass murderers go when they die?