A 92-Year-Old Woman To Stand Trial For Murder

You have to have her stand trial! if not than 92 will be known as the age where it's okay to murder people and then you have a whole new set of problems.

You have to! Don't you understand? Or else every other 92-yea-old will think it's okay to murder and then we'll have a whole new set of problems.

At 92 you can do whatever the heck you want.

If she is guilty, she should hang from the neck until she is dead.

Nah, I think she should hang from the neck for only a tiny bit, just to teach her a lesson! But not as to kill her.

Yes for murder.

At 92 and if she's truly suffering from dementia, manslaughter would be and appropriate charge.. Given her age and the likely hood she would do it again...

I don't think we dealing with the son of Sam here.

This is a joke right? She's not fit to be tried by mental health alone. Any lawyer would correctly argue that, and any psychiatrist would recommend detaining her in a facility where she can be looked after properly.

"Is 92 too old to stand trial for murder?"

And I'm supposed to fall for this pseudo-moralistic trolling attempt and start a debate now? :S

She's clearly a black widow and will remarry only to kill again! SHE MUST BE STOPPED!

Hey this is neat.

Tiffany, you missed the workers being beheaded in Afganoland, now THAT was neat....well a bit messy in parts.

If she's crazy shes crazy, evidently a threat. There are wonderful psychiatric hospitals to isolate the elderly and prevent them from harming others.

Perhaps a senior's court would be as appropriate as a children's court.

I'm stunned. First that a magistrate would consider her mentally competent to stand trial and second with the comments here.

Why not prosecute? Her generation already stole our children's future.

Pretty sure dementia doesn't cause people to kill people. Delusions do. If she can't be diagnosed with a delusional disorder, she totally did it on purpose.

Gotta go with Mr. Awesome above...but might we suggest the processed oldster scraps and renderings be best used to feed those elderly deemed too dangerous to remain amongst those less prone to alleged acts of homicide.

Seriously though, they were probably both a couple of cunts to one another so why should some self-motivated then executed herd-culling be such a problem.
OHHHH, right, we're supposed to be better than the rest of God's creatures on accounta our gigantic brains, huh??

Wish the congress and senate would kill each other along with that obvious shill they call "Mr.President."

I'm pretty sure murder is murder now matter how old or young you are. Have fun in the brink for the last few years of your life old lady.

Sure as soon as or if you turn 90, it should be a free ticket to go postal.
The question posed is mind blowing.

Jesus H. Christ! After reading the article at the link, especially this quote:
The beating allegedly went on for more than an hour. ''The accused states that she put her fingers under the deceased's nose and could still feel him breathing, so she hit him again [with a stick].''
Seriously, this woman is insane in all forms of the word! Send her ass to jail, to a mental ward, freaking anywhere that is safe from the public. Nobody deserves to be beaten for over an hour like that!

Wow, in one sitting I have murder, parasites, and playing with dead things. Is this Neatorama tring to grow up by impressing me with its darker, more morbid side?
Ugh... Not neat.
Not why I come to this site. I have sites like Nothing to do with Arbroath for this kind of crap.

A person is never too old to stand trial, especially if she commits such a violent crime. However, another thing is that she is suffering dementia which basically means she might not have been fully aware of her actions.

So this sociologist named Lawrence Kohlberg came up with a multistage system of human moral development.

Level 1 (Pre-Conventional)
1. Obedience and punishment orientation
(How can I avoid punishment?)
2. Self-interest orientation
(What's in it for me?)
(Paying for a benefit)
Level 2 (Conventional)
3. Interpersonal accord and conformity
(Social norms)
(The good boy/good girl attitude)
4. Authority and social-order maintaining orientation
(Law and order morality)
Level 3 (Post-Conventional)
5. Social contract orientation
6. Universal ethical principles
(Principled conscience)

Level 5; according to Kohlberg is the bulk of adults. Their ethics/morals are determined by social contracts. Which is why so many think letting a 92-year old off for murder would send a message to other 92 year olds to commit murder. These people are social contractors. The highest stage is universal ethical principles; it is wrong to commit murder. Plain and simple, there is no "status quo" or "precedent" or "they did it first". It's wrong on principle, you don't do it. If everyone was this mature, we wouldn't have to worry about sending the wrong message.