This topic/case has a few threads already devoted to it, so the title is a bit incorrect, but still:
SELMER, Tennessee (AP) -- A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but she may end up serving only 60 days in a mental hospital.
Mary Winkler must serve 210 days, or about seven months, of her sentence before she can be released on probation, but she gets credit for the five months she has already spent in jail, Judge Weber McCraw said.
That leaves only two months, and McCraw said up to 60 days of the sentence could be served in a facility where she could receive mental health treatment. That means Winkler may not serve any significant time in prison. (Watch the judge sentence Mary Winkler )
Three years? Or 60 days in a mental hospital? I'm not keen on judging people but for homicide that's a bit... short. How is 60 days in a mental hospital going to guarantee her cleared of whatever supposed 'mental illness' it was that caused her to end another human being's life?!
It will not. There is no chance. Perchance there should be some law forbidding people to have another spouse on grounds of having killed the previous one? :/