So, lemme get this straight....

[conuly]

This woman killed her son.

She drugged him, then put a plastic bag over his head so he couldn't breathe, and waited for him to suffocate.

Premeditated, cold-blooded murder.

But instead of being treated as a murderer, she's out on bail, being charged with manslaughter, and the pastor of her village says that they feel profound sadness and sympathy - for her, not for her dead son.

I wonder, if I just started killing people who were inconvenient to me, could I get profound sadness and sympathy too? I've got a list of people I don't like all that much....


_{Taken from wakasplat}

Comments

Re: Here it is:

[conuly]

*nods slightly*

I can see what her lawyer argued, and that the court accepted it, but I'm not sure it means what you think it means. It could mean that the lawyer said "look, see how hard it was to take care of him for his entire life? Of course there was enough stress that she snapped!", and that's not an acceptable argument, to me.

I'll wait for more news on the subject.

Re: Here it is:

[eofs.livejournal.com]

No, it can't mean that. It is a legal term referring specifically to reduced/impaired mental capacity. If the lawyer had argued it was stress or whatever I'm sure The Times would have used a more appropriate term.

Re: Here it is:

[rpeate.livejournal.com]

I'm just going by "overwhelming psychiatric evidence". Of course, we do not know what that is.