Minn. Man Who Helped Coax 2 to Suicide Gets Jail

[Swede]

A former nurse who helped persuade two people he met online to kill themselves was sentenced Wednesday to nearly a year in jail, a punishment tailored to force him to return to jail each year for a decade to spend the anniversaries of his victims' deaths behind bars.

William Melchert-Dinkel was convicted of two counts of aiding suicide under a rarely used Minnesota law. Prosecutors said he posed online as a suicidal nurse and encouraged a Canadian woman and a British man to commit suicide.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13525065

[virgogal]

1. Awful The sentence is unusual.

[Very_Boring_Name]

2. The woman he got to commit suicide was a classmate of mine

At carleton university in Ottawa. I didn't know her personally, but she went there at the same time I did. It was pretty big news when this first happened.