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Well, here's the problem I have with that. I know I posted that I would be fine with seeing her walled up for the rest of her life, but that's only because I know that we will never fully realize the necessity for appropriate retribution, so I'm basically settling for "the next best thing".

Also, we're not talking about someone who snapped and shot someone. We're not talking about a man or woman who found out their spouse was cheating on them and killed them out of rage.

What we have here, is a clear-cut and simple case of a person whose mental processes are not that of a human being fit to live in ANY society. This was a person committing a crime they justified in their mind prior to committing it, and for quite some time. She faked pregnancy for 10 months... so there's at least 10 months she's been planning on this disgusting act. She intentionally befriended a pregnant woman in order to gut her and take her unborn child. Not only did she justify it all, but she planned it very meticulously so that it would come to fruition. Do not mistake my use of the word meticulous- being mentally unbalanced has nothing to do with your ability to plan and execute what you make up in your (fucked up) mind. Lots of very intelligent people have done very horrible things. Just because you are "smart" does not mean your intentions are good.

And who is anybody to say that if someone kills, we can't kill them to make up for it? That doesn't make us hypocrites, that makes us intelligent human beings, choosing the best option, based on available data. This is not a person who could ever safely function in society, or one that we should ever let back into society.

And you know what? I'd bet good money that it is far more satisfying and cathartic to know that the person responsible for your relative not being alive, is also now not alive. Why should they continue to get to live, when their loved one did not have that option?