[skillya_glowi]

Recently, a story has come up in the news about a mentally ill woman in Texas drowning 5 of her children, one by one, in a bathtub. Before that, she was charged with manslaughter and was on medication for mental illness. She is going to be placed in a mental institution. I think that is the wrong decision. That woman is a threat to herself and, more importantly, others and she is violent. Why waste cubic inches of space for a lost cause? Illnesses like hers cannot do anything for society. Think of this analogy: Imagine you have a batch of tomatoes. One of them is rotten and the disease is spreading to the other tomatoes. Are you going to build a separate enclosure for all bad tomatoes and take care of them? Or is it just better to throw it away?

My opinion is, no matter how harsh it may seem, that the best thing to do when you have a violent and dangerous person that is not "all there", or, in this case, not at all "there", is to put that person to a quick and painless...death. This may seem cruel to some people, but it is what is best for the collective. What do you think?

The only bad thing about the execution of the violent severely mentally ill is, possibly, the protest of their families. I understand how one might not want their sister, or, say, their wife be executed. If the charges are pressing, they could indeed be kept in a mental institution at maximum security.