{"id":551,"date":"2004-01-30T05:14:05","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T10:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/german_cannibal_sentenced_for\/"},"modified":"2004-01-30T05:14:05","modified_gmt":"2004-01-30T10:14:05","slug":"german_cannibal_sentenced_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/german_cannibal_sentenced_for\/","title":{"rendered":"German Cannibal Sentenced for Manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cannibal trial concludes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A self-confessed cannibal who killed and ate a man he had met over the internet was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison by a German court today, after being cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter.
\nThe court, in the central German town of Kassel, ruled that Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer expert, had no “base motives” in the crime, a decision that spared him a murder conviction.
\nMeiwes, from the nearby town of Rotenburg, had confessed in detail to the March 2001 killing of 43-year-old Bernd J\ufffdrgen Brandes and to eating his flesh when his trial opened last month.
\nProsecutors branded Meiwes a “human butcher” who acted simply to “satisfy a sexual impulse”, and had sought a life sentence for murder.
\nBut his lawyer, Harald Ermel, successfully argued that the death was “homicide on demand” – a form of mercy killing – because the victim had given his consent to be killed and eaten.
\n. . .
\nMeiwes’s willing cooperation during the trial had helped shed light on the murky world of online cannibals, and his case was not an isolated one, police disclosed last month. He estimated that there are at least 800 active participants in cannibal forums, and said he was in contact with at least 400 of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cannibal trial concludes: A self-confessed cannibal who killed and ate a man he had met over the internet was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison by a German court today, after being cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter. The court, in the central German town of Kassel, ruled that Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}