A Giant of Suffering

Doctors examining him for his later trial claimed that he was a sadomasochist, indulging in self-mutilation, driving needles into his body, mostly around his genitals. He said he tried sticking a needle in his scrotum but it was too painful, and there were needles in his pelvis that were permanently embedded. He would stuff cotton balls soaked with lighter fluid into his rectum and set fire to them.

At his trial, which opened on March 11, 1935, Fish pleaded insanity. He claimed to have heard voices from God telling him to kill children. Several psychiatrists took the stand to talk of Fish's many sexual fetishes, including coprophilia, urophilia, pedophilia and masochism, but there was disagreement as to whether these activities necessarily meant someone was insane. The defense's chief expert witness was Frederic Wertham, a psychiatrist with a focus on child development who conducted psychiatric examinations for the New York criminal courts; Wertham stated flatly that Fish was insane. The trial lasted for ten days. The jury found him to be sane and guilty, and the judge ordered the death sentence.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

Albert fish, killer. If one is truly devoted to suffering, one must inflict and endure suffering. Textbook example of an insane man, but still he was destroyed. Not because he was guilty, but because we could not knowingly allow him to exist in the same world as us. One had to be destroyed: Him, or the society. He was not a guilty man, but an unfortunate human sacrifice that had to be made.