Lamb to the Slaughter
Do you think someone should go to jail for killing their husband even when they go crazy? This is what happened with Mary Maloney. She got herself all worked up because her husband was leaving. She went completely psycho, which led to killing him.
Mary Maloney should not go to jail. She went mentally crazy needs to get help. You should not put a pregnant woman in jail anyways. She should go to a doctor and get help. Should she ever do this again you can rethink the consequences.
Now I know what you are thinking,”well, she did kill her husband.” Yes, but before all of this she was a good woman. She would have never thought about doing this. She loved her husband but something snapped in her head and made her go crazy.
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The reasons are that she went psycho, She is pregnant, and she has never committed something this bad in her life. She needs to get help from a doctor so something like this will never happen
She may have had her emotions completely take over and her mind may have been telling her body what to do. Being emotionally unstable, makes our brains “foggy” and can often blind us from the real world and concepts of right and wrong. She was obviously not psychologically stable in her life during that
As Suzy Spencer, a reporter following the case and author of the book Breaking Point, pointed out that many of the people she interviewed said “This could never happen in my family. My wife would never do that.” Thus during the first trial, although no one disputed Andrea as being sane in the time of the murder, the court dismissed her claims of madness. They sentenced her to life in prison in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with the qualification for parole in forty years. However this decision led to the public and the media to question how can mental illness affect a person’s judgement and how mental illness should be
Houston, Texas, was home to Andrea Yates; a wife and a mother to Randy Yates and their five children. One morning in the year 2001, she dialed, 911 breathing heavily into the phone “I need a police officer,” (O’Malley). The news over Andrea Yates drowning her children spread like wildfire across the nation, horrifying Americans. Following her confession, she pleaded innocent with the “Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity” (NGRI) plea, yet the jury rejected her appeal and found her guilty of five accounts of first-degree murder. However, in the retrial of 2006, Yates’ abiding murder convictions were overturned, and Andrea Yates was found NGRI.
she was doing was wrong/illegal. The Caretaker should be considered insane because he is trying to convince everyone that he is sane. This is evident when he says,”Ha!-would a madman have been so wise as this” (90). This proves that he is insane because he is trying to prove that he is not insane.
Killing your husband is no big deal, right? Not for Mary Maloney. A casual day is not typically when your house is turned into a murder scene. Sometimes you can’t blame people for their impulse actions; for example, Mary Maloney. Should Mary Maloney face punishment for her wrong doing?
Murder is by far one of the worst crimes a person can commit. Genene Jones committed murder anywhere from 11 up to 46 times. Not only did she kill people, she killed babies. Jones felt like it was her right to be able to take the lives of those who haven’t even lived yet. Jones was a white female born on July 13, 1950.
She fully intended to leave her baby behind when she bought a one-way ticket. She had no intentions of coming back. She also attempted to find someone to watch her. Her mother had plans so she found a sitter whom she never showed up for. She even went as far as asking a friend to go check on her house.
Mary Maloney is a very loving and devoted house wife and mother-to-be. Though her dream of having the perfect American family was destroyed by the bewildering news of Patrick choosing another women over Mary and their child. Innocent is all Mary Maloney is, due to her indistinct state of mind caused by her heinous husband’s decision to desert her and her child while she is unable to control her emotions due to her being pregnant. Mary is not guilty of murder instead innocent due to diminished capacity.
Also when she was with her family watching walter cronkite she wanted to say something really mean and childish(with a really bad attitude) like “I told you so.” or something like that but she held it in. Even though she made a new friend went to california with him without even knowing him for that long. But she only did that to find herself.
Nursing has been around since ancient times. People have needed the healing hands of nurses for thousands upon thousands of years. In Africa, the healing techniques of witch doctors and medicine men were taught to chosen children. The medicine men and witch doctors were like the nurses for the entire village. However, these more primitive techniques have evolved into much more evidence-based practices.
It’s important to know that she still loves her husband even after she killed him. Her feelings went away for a little bit and she did things that she regrets all because of what her husband told her. I wonder what her husband told
In that time period nothing was said about it. In today’s society she would be considered insane or mental and would be taken away and put into a facility for mental people. She also kills Homer Baron, who is her “husband” supposedly. Everyone in town is suspicious, but no one really thinks anything of it because she goes out and buys a toilet set and men’s suit for Homer. They just believe they are now married.
Insanity is not a valid defense for one main reason. You are either crazy or you are not. In the end, Mack Herring was acquitted for murder. He felt as if he was pressured into doing it and he also thought he was helping her by committing the crime.
All the narrator’s actions, from the abuse to the murders, are some effects of his alcoholism and insanity. A sane person clearly would not carry out these heinous acts and behave the way the narrator did after committing
She was emotionally very disturbed and socially withdrawn following the incident. In addition, she was also depressed with insomnia, poor appetite and had significant weight loss. She felt hopeless and worthless but not having suicidal ideation. Her decision for