Botched Suicide Attempt Kills Eleven Others

The suicidal man who authorities say caused the chain-reaction train derailment that killed 11 people has been charged with multiple counts of murder and could face the death penalty, the district
attorney said Thursday.

Juan Manuel Alvarez, 25, left his sport utility vehicle on a railroad track Wednesday after changing his mind about committing suicide, authorities said. He was held without bail at a hospital’s jail ward after apparently slitting his own wrists and stabbing himself in the chest.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said prosecutors filed charges for 10 counts of murder with "special circumstances" of committing murder through a train derailment. Under state law, special circumstances allegations can make a defendant eligible for the death penalty.

>> Source Article [MSNBC]

Real slick... He couldn't even kill himself right but he succeeded in inadvertantly(?) killing at least eleven others. Damn shame.

Others shouldn't have to pay like that because someone is incapable of handling their problems so they want to kill themselves.

Yet here he is, responsible for the deaths of unsuspecting innocents because of his suicidal self. But if you give him the death penalty, you're just gonna give him what he was aiming to do to himself in the first place.

Is that really "justice"? It certainly won't bring back the no less than eleven families reeling from their losses - presuming that some of the two dozen critically wounded may not make it and the crippling injuries some of the survivors may have - loss of limbs or impaired mobility, trauma and such.