Someone does something bad and everyone cries for blood. That's how the Colosseum justice system worked but this is not the Roman Empire. If she wasn't of sound mind when she did it then we should place blame onto a world where someone with a mental disorder was never diagnosed or given treatment. It's a direct result of that and nothing else. That should be her punishment.
It's not irrational for a human to say bad things out of anger. Trust me, we all do it. So I don't think it has anything to do with integrity. I don't think anyone should be saying they hold more integrity for their response to all of this. I don't condone what she did. I wouldn't do what she did. I wouldn't hurt her myself for her actions. But whatever punishment she gets probably won't be enough for her in my eyes, and therefore justice is lacking in this country.
It may be common for people to say things in anger, but just because you're angry doesn't mean you get a free pass to say whatever you want to whoever you want. You are still accountable for your actions and you are still capable, and expected to use, self control.
We all have different views. But at the end of the day, us saying we'd do something is completely different to us actually doing it. She actually did something. She killed an innocent animal over something so pathetic. As I said earlier, she had loads of other ways to get revenge. She decided to take the life of a defenseless animal instead, which is totally vile and cruel. If you think that we should be soft on her, or soft on what we say about her, then I honestly don't understand why we should be.
Lets get hypothetical here for a moment.
One day you're out at work and your neighbor out of the blue takes a baseball bat to your car. Completely bashes it in. Then he goes up to your front porch and smashes every window, goes inside and starts breaking furniture, smashing walls, destroying everything in your house.
You come home to a big shock and start looking around outside.
You find the baseball bat with glass lodged in it on your neighbors front porch so the perpetrator is pretty obvious. You're ready to bring this sucker down lawyer style. You've caught him red-handed. You take him to court and everything is going fine. He's going to pay you $250,000 in damages and face several years in jail. Then something unexpected happens. Your neighbors attorney reveals to the court that his client was subjected to a psychiatric evaluation and it was discovered that he has schizophrenia. When he was destroying everything you own, he didn't even know he was doing it. The court rules that he still owes you the fine. You break it you bought it, right? Though instead of prison, he's placed under house arrest and where he'll be visited by a psychiatrist in his home three times a week. While you're busy repairing your home and replacing all your worldly possessions he'll be next door with a doctor coming by every once in a while to see how he's doing. You're infuriated to think that all the while he'll still be in the comfort of his home only a few hundred feet away from you.
So I ask you, was justice served? If not, why?