Current Event for the Week of 9/14/07
Was it Murder or self defense?
According to msnbc.com, Phyllis Nelson called 911 one early december stating that she had stabbed someone in the heart. She had stabbed a dean of the University of Iowa College of Medicine. This man happend to be her husband of 33 years. Why did she stab the person she was in love with?
Read the article here.
What would you have done if you found out the person you were married to for 33 years was having an affair? Would you go to the extremes as of stabing him? Do you think it was murder?or could it have been self defense?
According to msnbc.com, Phyllis Nelson called 911 one early december stating that she had stabbed someone in the heart. She had stabbed a dean of the University of Iowa College of Medicine. This man happend to be her husband of 33 years. Why did she stab the person she was in love with?
Read the article here.
What would you have done if you found out the person you were married to for 33 years was having an affair? Would you go to the extremes as of stabing him? Do you think it was murder?or could it have been self defense?
posted by phs_sociology at 7:16 PM
6 Comments:
umm i really doubt that the whole stabbing her husband with a knife in his heart was self defense. haa she obviously wasn't thinking clearly because she just found out her husband of 33 years was cheating on her. she pobably just had a lot of uncontrolled rage and anger and unfortunately she acted on it. if my husband was cheating on me yeah i would be devestated and really angry, but i would not go to the extreme of stabbing him. i dont think she knew that by doing this, it would have killed him. it just proves that actions speak louder than words.
I don't think she did it in self defense at all. i mean come on she has a motive wich is that her husband of 33 years was cheating on her. I agree with keastx3 she probably did have a lot of rage in her , but that still didn't give her the right to stab her husband in the heart.
"says she grabbed a knife to protect herself and he walked into it."
hah. I can't believe she would put it that way, but I suppose it could be so.
I know I would grab a knife for self defense (if there was really a reason to think i needed to defend myself). Holding a knife and finding out my husband cheated on me...who knows what i would be thinking. I do agree that most likely she just freaked out and felt extremely hurt. Therefore, wanting to hurt another. I think that she probably is very guilty for kidding him, though. It just doesn't seem like it'd be intentional to take his life.
I sorta think that maybe the whole stabbing her husband thing wasn't just self defense. First of all, I don't think just walking into a knife would send a knife through your skin to your heart, and secondly she was obviously upset because she found out he was cheating on her. I don't understand how she wasn't freaking out at all though when he was about to die, even if she was mad. It all seems a little wierd. I wonder how her 2 daughters will feel about her now after she killed their dad? Whenever she came to her senses she probably dealt with a lot of guilt.
I think that if i was married to someone for that long and was with that person for almost my whole life i would definately not want to go to the extreme and try to hurt him. To me, what she did was wrong. I don't think she should have picked up the knife but I think if i was in that position at that moment so many things would be going through my mind that I wouldn't really know what i was doing. I think the same thing was going through Phyllis's mind. No matter how long she has been with him she was just thinking of herself.
I know that when people are worked up or things are rushing through their heads they don't think about what they are doing or about to say.
I definately think that Dick had it coming to him. I mean what is a wife of 33 years supposed to do? Be calm and understanding? What Phyllis did is certainly not right but i think that she had the right to go and see him that night. Of course she is going to be worried about him. Even though they are split up she is still going to have feelings and worry just like before.
I believe the punishment that Phyllis recieved is fair. She shouldn't of walked away empty handed or with a life sentence. Like Mary Jo said, she will live with that grief for the rest of her life and thats a heart breaking punishment.
i don't think that this is any way possible self-defense. the woman said she wanted to hurt him and wanted him to feel the hurt she did so she did it not regarding to self-defense. if i found out that my husband of 33 years was cheating on me i would not go to the extreme of stabbing him and even killing him. i would kick him out. yeah i would be hurt but there is no reason to go to jail for murder because of it.
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