A 15 year old was recently convicted and sentenced to two life sentences plus 10 years in prison after she shot and killed her mother and shot her step father before hiding the security camera that documented her crimes.
The defense told the jury that the murderer had suffered enough, since she was now an orphan after her mother was killed. They also tried the “not guilty by reason of insanity” that I don’t think should be a defense. You killed someone in cold blood? There is only one way to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.
On the other hand, I also don’t trust the state in death penalty cases, because I know that prosecutors lie, and cops swear to it. I hope she enjoys her time in prison.
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godhelpus · September 22, 2024 at 12:06 pm
If you need a representation of pure evil she could be the poster child.
Dan D. · September 22, 2024 at 1:23 pm
This is horrific. She is likely insane as defined by DSM-4. Locking her in a box and throwing away the box is not a rational solution though I cannot present a better one. I’ve been jailed, I have genuine empathy.
What a CF. My heart hurts for her.
TRX · September 22, 2024 at 8:57 pm
So… what other options are there? Warehouse her in an “institution” that differs from a prison only in that the guards are called “nurses” instead of “corrections officers”? Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
There’s no way to fix someone whose brain is broken like that. And frankly, I hope they never come up with a way, because a whole bunch of things the incumbents don’t like would suddenly be declared mental illness and they’d be “curing” people of badthink by the railcar-load.
The Soviet Union cured a lot of people of some types of mental illness, mostly being defined as “not agreeing with current State narrative.” They used electroshock and insulin shock among other methods, to turn them back into productive citizens. Some of them weren’t very bright after that, and, well, there was the incontinence issue, but they were no longer a danger to society, and they could usefully serve the State in some menual job.
Being able to reprogram someone’s head would be the ultimate power trip for any politician.
Noway2 · September 23, 2024 at 7:56 am
Article has limited information. I doubt this happened in a vacuum. What precipitated it? Was she being abused? Evil families can look pleasant to outsiders. Without knowing the details it’s hard to judge.
Divemedic · September 23, 2024 at 9:30 am
Still doesn’t excuse what she did. There are ways of dealing with anger that don’t include murder.
oldvet50 · September 23, 2024 at 9:39 am
….not to a 15 year old that may have complained to deaf ears. A mature mind would be able to deal logically with all sorts of anger issues. I agree with Noway2; we don’t know the whole story and probably never will.
Divemedic · September 23, 2024 at 10:02 am
Before you run off and have a parade in her honor, read about what she did. After she shot and killed her mother, she used her mother’s phone to text the step dad: “When will you be home honey?” then shot him when he walked in the door.
Then afterwards, Carly asked one of her friends “Have you ever seen a dead body? My mom is in there.”
What was the motive? Her mother had found Carly’s secret stash of marijuana and vape pens. The girl had drugs, vapes, burner phones, and other paraphernalia. Her mother found out, and the girl decided to get rid of her mother.
Not gonna give a druggie who murdered someone in order to continue using a pass on their crimes.
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/why-carly-gregg-15-fatally-shot-her-mother-ashley-smylie-all-we-know-about-motive-article-113534747
oldvet50 · September 24, 2024 at 6:43 am
I’ll need to quote Emily Litella here: Never mind.
Had this info been given in the first place, most replies would have been like the first. Pure evil.
McChuck · September 23, 2024 at 9:04 am
If mothers murdering their children because they are inconvenient is just fine, then children murdering their mothers must be acceptable also. That’s logic, that is.
Skyler the Weird · September 23, 2024 at 12:49 pm
My home town is in that Area. I can say she’d much rather be in the Women’s Prison up at Parchman than at the State Mental Hospital at Whitfield. It would be worse punishment to be at Whitfield
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