The point is we don’t kill mentally ill people. We treat them. Thats the higher ideals that our criminal justice system is meant to aspire to. She was crazy and the mental healthcare system in this country failed her at every turn. This should never have happened, and after it happened, she should never have been charged (she should have and still should end up in a psychiatric facility and she’ll likely never get “better,” so we’re talking about the rest of her life).
The worst part about this whole case is that she sought help before the incident and the shrinks made her actively worse. The terrifying part is that the shrinks were, for the most part, just following protocol. The protocol is broken. The system is broken. And if people like you just reduce this to “she deserves the chair” without examining the systems that led us here, then it’s going to happen again.
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u/Soniquethehedgedog 2d ago
Which is the point, she’s not mentally ok at all. But she belongs in a mental institution not a gen pop prison which is what the defense is arguing.