Originally posted by: fuzzynavel
How can people say that because she is psycotic(may or may not be in this case) that she should virtually be let off with murder.....so what she doesn't know any better....psycotic or not she did the crime let her die slowly and painfully...
Being psycotic is probably more of a danger to the rest of the world..too unpredictable!!
Lets imagine for a moment, a person who is deaf and blind who lived in an institution for 50 years of their life. Thanks to the way we just institutionalized these people 50 years ago, this person has the intelligence at this point of about a 2 year old. He just wanders around, feeling everything, tasting everything to see if it's edible. Suddenly, one day, someone leaves a door unlocked and he wanders out the door, down the street feeling his way around. He wanders into a subway terminal, and while feeling everything, manages to push a child into the path of an approaching subway train. The child is killed.
So, do you advocate for throwing this person in jail for the rest of his life?
Or, how about burning him in a fire? Or a slow death by having a subway train slowly drive over him?
Hmmm... maybe send him back to the institution and start providing some better care for him? Is that the solution? Well, if that's a different answer than what you suggest for someone who is mentally ill and commits an act of violence because of that illness, then you simply don't understand mental illnesses.
The difficult thing in cases like this one where the lady threw her children into the bay is determining if she knew it was wrong, or if she (as a result of the illness) felt she absolutely had to perform the actions she did. Personally, especially after reading reports where people faked mental illnesses and were place in care with people who truly were mentally ill - the psycholog/psychiatrists were unable to tell who was faking, but the patients could - I don't trust the people making these determinations.
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