General Canadian current affairs; I guess that many Canadians would consider the 'lunacy' to be the fact that Canada no longer has a Death Penalty to deal with people like this.
For those unfamiliar with Robert Pickton, he murdered a great many women in the Metro Vancouver area over the course of many years and fed them to the pigs on his farm. While in Fraser Pretrial lockup, he admitted to an undercover Mountie wearing a wire, that he had murdered 49 women. He claimed he wanted to make it an even 50 but he got sloppy and the last one escaped. Investigators found DNA of more than 30 missing women on his property, but the Crown only managed to secure 6 murder convictions.
Now, he's currently in critical condition after being attacked by a fellow inmate on Sunday.