That's what you get for stealing a car.
In most countries, if you steal a car, you KNOW your ass is on the line.
In the USA people just do this kind of shit casually. "Wanna steal a car tonight?" "Sure, i'm not really doing anything else."
I'm glad he's dead. Fuck him. Someone should shit on his corpse too because he rolled the dice and got snake eyes.
Sounds like he wasn't poor or broke. Why was he doing it anyway? Just for fun?