I too am pretty disgusted with the comments here.
When we have the Bell Mental Health Awareness Day, everyone is oh so sympathetic to the issue and say we should care for those who suffer from mental illness. Then we come to a case where the doctors conclude that the man suffered from a mental illness, had a psychotic break to disastrous results, the doctors have treated him and those same doctors consider him to no longer be a threat... and all that compassion is tossed out the window.
Someone said "their crimes are so heinous, that there is no single reason that they should walk the street again". Thing is... there was no crime. If there was a crime, he would be a criminal and would have gone to prison. This was an unfortunate circumstance where a disease in person A killed innocent person B. And KILLING someone because they are SICK?!? That belongs in the "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" thread. That is just shameful.
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BTW - someone mentioned a drunk driver. If someone was drunk and ran over a child, killing them, we do not kill the driver. There is no capital punishment for vehicular manslaughter. Nor do we lock them up for life with no possibility of parole. The laws of the country take into consideration that there was no formed intent to kill. Of course it is possible, some may even say probable, that the driver could return to his alcoholic habits after being released from jail. But that is a risk as a society that we take. We give people a chance to rebuild their lives and become productive members of society.
In this case, people have more compassion for the drunk driver than they do for a man WHO MADE NO CHOICE WHATSOEVER. I think, like Dion, I too should just drop out of the discussion.... this is giving me a headache....
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