I had never been more stunned and deeply disturbed in my entire life. As I watched from the comfort of a friends living room, one mans personal hell had just spun wildly out of control and very abruptly ended. Life and death captured in vivid Technicolor right on television just for my amusement. The world can be a truly wretched place at times. I will never forget how the scene unfolded. A portly, balding middle aged man was standing behind a small podium during what appeared to be a press conference. He was speaking to the cameras about some "travesty of justice" which had befallen him, and began calling