Hopefully he won't die though, or be tortured with force feeding While I disagree what he did was as minor as you claim, I agree with that, and would agree wit

Hopefully he won't die though, or be tortured with force feeding While I disagree what he did was as minor as you claim, I agree with that, and would agree with that no matter what he did. It begs an interesting question, though: suppose a confessed murderer went on a hunger strike, refusing to eat until they were acquitted (err, and to be clear, I'm not saying this case is equivalent to murder... just using it as an example). What do you do? I honestly am unsure of the ethics. Forced feeding sounds awful, but anything else is effectively enabling suicide... The alternative is to bend to their wishes, but that sets a very dangerous precedent that threatening suicide is an effective means of manipulating the criminal justice system.