There are two separate discussion points here.
Watkins’ death is no loss to society. I don’t agree with the death penalty, but should a criminal of his ilk die by different means then so be it.
However, a criminal being murdered by another criminal is nothing to celebrate.
Prisoners don’t murder paedophiles, child killers etc out of any sense of moral justice. Not one of the murderers in that prison has any sense of what’s right and wrong, hence why they too are in said prison.
When someone in a prison kills or attacks a paedophile they gain notoriety from having done so. Greater respect from their fellow prisoners, safety from attack themselves even because they’re seen as someone who did in a notorious pedo.
We have no idea what any of those prisoners are in there for. Maybe for murdering their wives, someone’s grandmother, someone’s son or daughter. Maybe for rape, the list of equally reprehensible crimes is endless, and yet we feel those same people should be celebrated because they killed a paedophile?
What if Watkins had murdered someone who had committed an equally serious or even worse crime than him. Would he be seen as a hero then instead of the despicable individual he was?
I couldn’t care less that he’s dead. But two wrongs don’t make a right.