Aaron Hernandez commits suicide in prison

[Blue_Adept]

Source: WCVB

BOSTON — Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder and was acquitted in a 2012 double slaying last week has committed suicide in prison.

Hernandez was discovered hanged in his cell by corrections officers at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley at 3:05 a.m.



Read more: http://www.wcvb.com/article/aaron-hernandez-commits-suicide-in-prison/9527659

[nitpicker]

1. Link to Boston Globe

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/19/aaron-hernandez-kills-himself-prison/Hkp9wdGcZImoMBomJLMNVJ/story.html

[BumRushDaShow]

2. CNN breaking now

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/19/us/aaron-hernandez-suicide/index.html

[busterbrown]

3. Pretty fucked Up World We Live In..

I have absolutely no feelings about this...

Are Drugs and Gang Culture the only reasons Aaron ended up killing himself?.

Family issues? Machismo? Who the hell knows?

Life can be absolutely Devastating but at the same incredibly sublime.

No definitive answers...

[oberliner]

4. Why is Russia Today the top hit on twitter for this story?

On Twitter, if you search for Aaron Hernandez the top story is from Russia Today.

I wonder what the folks over there have done to work the twitter algorithm.

[Sunlei]

10. lots of hits by russian citizens? the only sports news they get is through government owned TV/net.

[oberliner]

24. Russian citizens are interested in an ex-NFL player?

Seems surprising.

[Sunlei]

25. USA does have the better sports "news" everyone in 'not free' countries click on the NFL word.

AMERICAN FOOTBALL

[MADem]

5. He used his bedsheet, apparently.

Blocked the door, ostensibly to make it hard to get in his single-person cell. They gave him CPR and transported him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

I'm guessing he just didn't want to do a life sentence. I'm not thinking he felt "guilty" re: his murders.

[Moostache]

6. I simply do not care about this...at all.

Our society is sick in the fact that a semi-famous, former athlete murderer gets more coverage for hanging himself in prison than the average paper or newscast will spend on the effects of climate change in an entire year.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Link to ESPN. . .

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19191248/former-new-england-patriots-te-aaron-hernandez-found-dead-prison-cell

[Sunlei]

8. IMO, suicide should be an option for anyone in prison for decades.

[Nitram]

9. My first reaction on hearing this discussed on NPR was, "so what?"

Is this suicide so worthy of compassion because he was a football player? Why is the death of a celebrity more noteworthy than that of a homeless person? I'm sorry if I sound uncaring or unfeeling. I just feel like the cult of celebrity warps our values. There is so much pain and anguish in the world. It is trivialized when we reserve our empathy for famous people.

[Lurks Often]

17. Probably would have been less of a story of he hadn't just been found not guilty of

two murders this past Friday, April 14th.

And no, I don't find his suicide very noteworthy, mostly I'm thinking he just saved the taxpayers of Massachusetts some money and I don't consider him celebrity, I view him as murderer who happened to play football for a while.

As for celebrities in general, I suppose it depends on the celebrity and how much a person likes that celebrity and how much they have contributed in their career. The loss of Chuck Berry or Don Rickles, both who contributed greatly in their chosen career fields, is noteworthy and does deserve some recognition.

[Nitram]

29. I agree that the death of a great artist deserves recognition.

Maybe I have a bias against professional spots figures.

[Lurks Often]

31. There are damn few professional sports figures that are worthy of respect

and that has to do with how good a person they are, not how good their statistics were.

[47of74]

11. I wonder if they're going to look at his brain?

See if he had CTE or not?

[tavernier]

12. Good point n/t

[Hekate]

23. That was almost the first thing I thought of. Nowadays...

What I think of when I read "Former NFL player in trouble with the law" I find myself thinking "CTE again?" Pretty much as I would think "Coal miner?" on hearing of someone with Black Lung Disease.

[47of74]

27. Yeah it would not surprise me if they do look at his brain and find CTE

[greymattermom]

26. CTE happens in just about all of them

87 of 91 in this study
https://concussionfoundation.org/learning-center/what-is-cte?gclid=Cj0KEQjwldzHBRCfg_aImKrf7N4BEiQABJTPKMTjQIrB4lP6XQdNorS0b4vT-kqLz1-DGrWUvqg2JZEaAm0N8P8HAQ

[jmowreader]

32. They are

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/aaron-hernandez/aaron-hernandez-s-brain-being-held-illegally-medical-examiner-lawyer-n749011

It's going to Boston University's CTE Center. The Commonwealth removed it during their autopsy and held it pending determination of death...then they figured out he hanged himself.

[Blue_Tires]

13. Belichick and Kraft tying up loose ends...

[bluedigger]

16. At least it gave you an opportunity for another petty and baseless accusation.

So I guess it wasn't a pointless death. Feel better about yourself?

[Blue_Tires]

18. Funny, because I've lurked at SOSH for years

and I've seen how tasteless they've been in matters of death/scandal, so please get off the high horse...

[bluedigger]

20. What's a SOSH?

And I've always liked your posts, too. You saddled this damn horse and led it out of the pen. Guess I'll ride it where it takes me.

[Blue_Tires]

21. SOSH:

http://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php

[bluedigger]

22. Thanks.

Seems like an odd place for a Penguins fan to lurk. I gave up on the Bruins when I figured out Sinden never cared about anything but ticket sales.

[Txbluedog]

14. I am very upset by this news....

The miserable SOB was too chicken to man up and do the time for the crimes he committed and took the easy way out.

[Coventina]

15. I am against the death penalty. No government should be given that power.

The individual, however, is another story.

[dalton99a]

19. Good riddance.

[erpowers]

28. Murder?

I am the only person thinking this might have been murder instead of suicide? I understand he was looking a life in prison, but he had just been acquitted of double murder. Who kills themselves after being acquitted of double murder? I am wondering if this was a case of street justice. The courts can declare you not guilty, but the streets can convict you and hand out their own justice. Maybe this was really a suicide, but I do wonder if this was not murder. It seems possible that someone killed Aaron Hernandez in response to him being found not guilty of the double murder from 2012.

[Baclava]

30. someone snuck in and wrapped a sheet around his neck, without a fight, in his cell, and hung him?

oh yeah, that must be it

Acquittal was the high point of what was left of his life, it would've been all downhill after that, a life sentence behind bars. No more headlines, no more day trips....just a slow drab death.


Good riddance, fucker.

[jmowreader]

33. It gets better

The guards discovered the door to his cell was jammed shut with cardboard. Theoretically someone could do that from the outside, but it would be a lot easier from the inside.

[MADem]

34. He left three suicide notes. It was the 3rd note that came as a surprise to many.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/24/aaron-hernandez-fiancee-wants-suicide-notes-before-funeral-service-held/VnvgwYvkkdufsmbMPq8b4M/story.html