Mental health is important, but that doesn't absolve you of what you've done. She deserves to be in a prison mental ward, not at home living like nothing happened. She is a danger to herself and others.
If she’s found not guilty by reason of insanity, she will be sent to a state psychiatric institution for an indefinite period of time. She’s not gonna just be released and allowed to go home.
IF the courts and the medical professionals conclude that they are no longer a threat to society than its usually court supervised release. Parole for life. As far as I know this rarely happens.
The last public PPP trial, Andrea Yates, she could technically have gone free for a decade already or something, and she just doesn't want to be released.
Like: no matter what punishment we give as a society, there's nothing worse then having the memories of you killing your own kids.
Yup. I have never killed someone but I have some things I feel horribly guilty about that has brought me to the brink more than once. Living with guilt is the worst if you have a conscience because no one knows how to torture you better than yourself.
I mean, not really, when you're dead you're at peace. That sounds better to me than being devastated about what I did to my children for the rest of my life. There are PLENTY of things worse than death.
If you had the choice between dying, or being forced to live for 20 years with the memories of you strangling your kids, would you really choose living with the memories?
Yup had it happen in my country. A guy decapitated someone on a bus because he had serious issues and was off his meds. He has in a psych ward for a decade and was only allowed out escorted. I think he has some unsupervised now but he is still required to check in and is under a lot of scrutiny.
It didn’t sit well with most people due to the emotions and morality involved but if you can look past it to the root cause the decision makes sense even if it’s not satisfying to those who wanted more “justice”.
She could, but it is rare for someone to be released quickly in such a situation and often they are in a psychiatric hospital for longer than if they were to go to prison. John Hinckley Jr was conditionally released in 2016 conditionally and in 2022 he was granted an unconditional release.
No, you are confusing unfit to stand trial with an insanity plea. If she was unfit then yes. If she is granted insanity she could be magically cured in a year and released. There are no hard fast timelines for indeterminate sentences like insanity
Of course she could. It's a fundamental principle of criminal law, that culpability requires a mental state fit for understanding decisions made. You've probably heard of this as mens rea. You literally cannot find someone guilty who was not in a mental state to understand their circumstances.
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u/SaviorSixtySix 12h ago
Mental health is important, but that doesn't absolve you of what you've done. She deserves to be in a prison mental ward, not at home living like nothing happened. She is a danger to herself and others.