would you convict a mother who has killed the murderer and rapist of their daughter?

Question

The murderer and rapist was let free due to tampering of evidents.

Answer 1

Even though I don't agree with her killin' him/her ...
I would not convict the mother of doing such a thing, she went temporarolly insane ... of course someone would go nuts, my BF says if someone ever killed me he'd become like the Punisher, I can see how someone could crack (and even gain back their sanity). In this case I fully understand how she would succum to such an act, therefore I would not convict her of murder.
;-)

Answer 2

many here has raise that no one must put the law into their own hands... which is the lawful act. if i must convict her, and i am included in the jury, i'd ask first for the conditions that happened during the murder scene, the actual scene... if she was defending herself for an attempted crime about to be committed to her, why should i convict her? if she had done it for vengeance, then that's definitely a crime... sure it's highly debatable whether convicting her or not but the thing is, she did the crime and no one should be above the law...

in this case, however, the law was tampered with before the actual murder... the murderer was set free proving that he is above the law. still, unjust or not, we do not have the right to take a life... the only way the mother could be set free if she pleads insanity in her case.

i know it's unjust to the mother, but she can plead insanity to the preempted murder or murder itself... sentencing the mother to a lower term wouldn't be possible (since the law is the law) but in time, if she shows good character, a possibility for pardon would definitely ensue...

still, i'd convict her...

Answer 3

That is the world today. Go to any country, Judiciary favours the unjust. Poor people in any society will not get justice.

I have written a poem after hearing the news about some cases in India.

THE DEATH OF JUSTICE IN MY HOMELAND

Judges favours everywhere the unjust,
Rulers go even worse than the gangland,
Where can I find my repose and trust?
And where to flee away from my homeland!

I know my cries won’t reach up to their ear
And know not what for my inner man scream
Like the one reaching verge of death I hear
Call for my last breath to end up the dream

Hand in hand goes both bench and the rulers,
With aims and views that are very much alike,
Runs all around for chances these prowlers
And snares up the naives to plunder away

Courts are ruined and righteousness banished
Darkness captured my people and nation
No one to save them as justice got vanished
And where can I move now, I have no notion

Answer 4

I would hope for unsubstantiated evidence that leaves questionable doubt - but if not, then the law says she is guilty for two reasons: 1 for murder and 2 for being a vigilante - does it make it just, no, but then our laws aren't known for their justice now are they?

Hopefully DNA will become a better solution for evidencial critieria and there will be less need for circumstancial consideration - this will help eliminate the small population of prisoners who did not actually commit a crime from being sentenced for one and it will allow for clearer determination of a crime and the committing party or parties as it leaves room for less error than say lie detectors, witnesses, professionals on the scene, etc.

Answer 5

Would I enjoy commiting the mother who murdered her daughters rapist/murderer? I'd have to say no.

However, unfortunately we cannot allow people to take the law into their own hands and end the life of another person. No matter how sick and twisted they are.

Answer 6

I am no legal eagle - but I can guess that the interpreters of Law will surely show some lenience towards the mother. After all, she has only executed a criminal, not murdered any innocent person.
...If only the mother could PROVE this criminal's guilt, at least after his death, she might even be let off !

Answer 7

No one has the right to take law into his or her hands. Get that straight. Life is no bloody Video Game.
And she did not need to do that. The person would be anyway killed by electric shock.
That is if the Law finds him guilty. The Killed person might be merely a suspect, afterall.

Answer 8

The sad fact is mother would still be convicted for murder thou we all know the rapist deserves more than death.

Answer 9

PEACE IS THE WAY

No wrong is justified enough to be used against another. Just because it is placed against another wrong, doesn’t make it any right.

This is same as waging a war just to kill a killer, because in the end it is the crime and violence that won the race and not peace, as in truth it is the crime that managed to perpetuate itself and not peace.

Eye for an eye is an easy way out, but in the end it shall make us all, a race of blinds, blinded by our own rage and hatred. Instead if we decide to start a movement we can channelise the same anger in a positive way.

On a cold winter night, Mahatma Gandhi, a young barrister then, was thrown out of his train compartment near Johannesburg in South Africa, just because he wasn't White enough. So he decided then and there that things had to change, and not just for himself but for millions of Indians back home, because in that one moment he could suddenly empathize with them all and felt their pain and strife as they has struggled under the same British rule, facing the same defeats every day and night.

So when he came back to India the first thing he did was to start a mass movement which eventually led to the British being thrown out of India.

So in the end he got his revenge all right, but that changed the course of history for the entire Indian sub-continent.

And that is the power of a single individual who decides he has had enough but he decides to use his anger vigilantly.

And today he stands has portal of peace and non-violence for all of us to see, because he displayed it amply through his personal example that peace works in the long run, you just need more courage to be peaceful than you need to be violent.

Answer 10

Nope, in fact I would provide the weapons, from Medieval to Advanced Technology and let her hunt.

Then I would make a reality Show out of it.