Taking the death penalty instead of 11 month sentence???

Too often fear of a temporary hardship causes people to make things much worse.

September 5, 2005 -- FORMER ESPN reporter Adrian Karsten, facing a prison tax rap, was found dead, an apparent suicide, in his Wisconsin home, officials said yesterday. Karsten pleaded guilty in July to failing to report about $607,000 in income he made as a sideline reporter for ESPN college football games between 1999 and 2002. He was sentenced to serve 11 months in prison and nine months home confinement. He was supposed to report to a federal lockup in Rochester...

In the Navy I saw guys desert to avoid a six month deployment. Never made any sense. Screw up the rest of your life over a short term concern. Having known people who were left to deal with the aftermath of suicide I feel just awful for his family.