Whoever wrote the editorial on Amanda Wallace (Aug. 5) couldn’t possibly have been more right in his/her assessment of the situation as a whole.
I knew Ms. Wallace while I was a nurse at Elgin Mental Health Center, and I have never understood how the court system found her to be competent and fit to stand trial, let alone the absolute travesty of her being declared eligible for the death penalty.
When I heard of her attempted suicide, my reaction was of hope that she could find some peace in death that she could not have in life. It is my fervent hope that there is an afterlife where a restored Amanda Wallace can be with her little boy to say: “I’m sorry. Mommy was very sick.” In a just universe this would be the proper end to this tragic tale of human suffering.
