At his advanced age and with good behavior, it would have been very easy to secure him some reprieve of parole, pardon or even probation and/or payment of fine in lieu. He could also have had whatever sentence imposed commuted. More-so, it may not have been an automatic 30 years prison sentence upon conviction and even if, every court decision is appealable and an appellate judge might have seen the case differently and enough to reduce the sentence, order a new trial or completely throw the case out.
He said that he did not want to die in prison as America government would have given him a 30 years sentence, a life sentence at his age; which meant that he would have died in prison; but ironically, he ended up still dying in prison. So what difference did it make now that he took his own life in a prison confinement which he vowed that he did not want to die in? But he would rather commit the worse crime anyone can ever imagine, killed himself by hanging, violently dying in prison in Barcelona instead of peacefully dying in a prison in America. As a suicide, the world has rejected him and so will the heavens too; and now he is most likely going to end up in hell, if he is not banished to a perpetual wandering about life of a restless ghoul, all of which were otherwise avoidable.
It was like a cornered criminal killing himself instead of going out through suicide by cops, so that the cops can bear the burden soul of killing the person. He would have allowed American government to be the one responsible for taking his life, if imprisoned and eventually died in their prison custody; as that would have spared him the harshness of self kill. He suffered the agonizing pain of a neck break and his name will now forever live in the shame and infamy of being a suicide. Regardless of how surreal and inhuman American prisons are, a life in prison is still far better than being dead and rotten inside a grave, especially when one was violently transported there through suicide.
However, John Mcafee was somewhat witty and one of his ICHEOKU's favorite play with words was: "I was stunned by Epstein's suicide, though probably not as much as Epstein himself." Another was when explained in an interview who his father, who also committed suicide, really was to him: "Every day I wake up with him. Every relationship I had, he was always by my side. Every mistrust I had, he was always the negotiator of that mistrust. So my life is fu*ked" (because of him).
Anyway, whether he was Epstein(ed) in the Barcelona prison or not, the imperative now is that John McAfee has since assumed room temperature and no longer alive. May his soul now rest. ICHEOKU strongly says that he would have taken his chances and not have taken his own life, He once said that heaven is relative and that for prisoners who have a free shelter, three meals a day, sleeping bunks and some other accesses, their life is heaven compared to some hunger starved and diseases stricken people throughout the world who have none of those "privileges". But the big question remains why he still killed himself after vehemently stating that suicide will never be his portion and that if anything like that ever happened, that it was not his voluntary act.
Unfortunately, no one will ever know the answer to whether John McAfee indeed took his own life as the government has told the world that he committed suicide in his prison cell and so will the story remain. After what happened to Jeffrey Epstein inside New York Metropolitan Correctional Center and the overbearing evidentiary circumstances strongly suggesting that suicide was not his weapon of choice, the world moved on, believing that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. So, as with Epstein, so shall it be with McAfee and the world will similarly go on living, admitted that John McAfee immortalized himself in his anti virus software McAfee and will live on though it. Adieu Jon.