Originally posted by ZoomZoom Diva: Why the insanity defense has become utter [censored]. There is a point where you do something so bad the rest is completely irrelevant. I just hope they throw her in one of the hellhole mental institutions like they had in the 40's.
Did you know that mental hospitals of that time shot their more uncontrollable patients up with mercury twice a week? My last job involved documents from the 1890s-1950s. Every patient I had seen with this particular note in their files had died within a year or so after the injections started.