During that psychotic break, she stabbed O’Melia multiple times, eventually killing him. She also stabbed herself repeatedly, officials said.
The next morning, officers arrived at the apartment to find O’Melia in a pool of blood and Spejcher screaming hysterically while still holding a knife in her hands. As officers tried to disarm her, Spejcher plunged the knife into her neck, authorities said.
This seems like the right move to me. If you drink alcohol, you know that you’ll be impaired driving and should be held accountable. When you smoke pot, you don’t expect that you’ll stab yourself in the neck. She truly seems to be a victim just as much as the guy, even if his outcome was ultimately worse.
I did say prison is supposed to rehabilitate someone as that’s the only way a prison is effective. The American system doesn’t even work as a deterrence since you got like the highest percentage of your population imprisoned among the better off countries not run by just a warlord.
Even if you are using prison as a theoretical deterrence putting someone who had a psychological break in there deters nothing.