Man Kills Wifes Lover

Recently in the news there has been a court case about a man named Eric McLean from Knoxville, Tennessee. He is a thirty three year old man who terminally shot his wifes eighteen year old lover. The eighteen year old was a student of Erin McLean, and also was the boy she was having an affair with. The husband found out not long after and killed the young boy. There is now controversy to whether or not he should be held totally accountable for the murder or if he can plead insanity. The court is taking many precautions to this case such as gathering a well trained jury. The jury members are not allowed to talk about the case to anyone and are also not allowed to watch news stations about the case. They are only allowed to watch Animal Planet, HG-TV and C-Span in their hotel rooms that the court got for them.

I think that although the wife was having an affair with the eighteen year old boy Eric did not have an excuse to take his life. He took a life of a young boy and admitted to it. He is the one that pulled that trigger, insane or not he made that choice. I think that he should undoubtedly be held accountable for this kill and be sent to jail. I think there is no excuse for taking the life of another or to even threaten to do so. This man is clearly unstable and needs to be held in jail. As for the wife, she should not have cheated on her husband, however, she also made that choice. It may have been the wrong one, but she did it. I'm not at all saying she deserved to have her lover killed, but cheating never solves any relationship problem. It only makes it worse. One of my favorite quotes is "You never expect what you get, and you never get what you expect". I think this quote ties in perfectly with this case because no one would have saw any of it coming if the two were happily married as the article told.