So Much For Mercy

A Bulgarian women was convicted of murdering her sleeping son with a hoe. She was sent to prison for 15 years. After serving about 18 months of her sentence, authorities discovered she had end-stage terminal cancer which had spread throughout her body. They took pity on her and released her so she could die at home.

Whereupon she murdered her husband.

The 57-year-old was sentenced to 15 years in jail for killing her 29-year-old son with a garden hoe in April 2005 while he was sleeping.

Last month, authorities judged her to be in the final stages of cancer and let her go home, where she stabbed her husband in the throat with a knife.

"It was established she was in the last stage of cancer, she had it all over her body," said a spokeswoman for the Bourgas regional police.

"They presumed she was feeling bad and she would treat herself and rest. But nothing of the kind. She got aggressive and … she killed her husband."

She's threatened to kill her last surviving son if released again. I rather suspect she won't be. The police spokesman likened the entire situation to something you'd see on The Twilight Zone. I'd have gone with Alfred Hitchcock Presents, myself.