Hey, lighten up a bit! First, he didn't use poison. Second, if he was violent he'd have slugged her. And if he's hen-pecked, isn't the hen at least somewhat to blame? He just wanted her to mellow out a bit, that's all.
That being said, he was both immature and wrong. He should have tried to mellow her out with a glass of wine at some nice restaurant instead of this. But jail? Nope. If I were the judge, I'd sentence BOTH of them to 6 months of weekly marriage counseling, and I'd make him account for every pill he took on a weekly basis. And maybe a divorce would be best.
Why do men die before women? Because they WANT to. That's a joke, get it?
I thought FReepers were above the "blame the victim" game, but I guess not.
For someone who doens't have a medical license, this "husband" has a lot of nerve trying to "prescribe" ANY prescription meds to his wife (or anyone else)without her consent or knowledge. For all he knew, she could have had a violent allergic to it or something. That stuff is pretty potent stuff. If she had ended up in hospital seriously sick, don't think an attempted murder charge would be far behind.
My husband took one after some dental surgery once and he was OUT COLD. After that he refused to ever take it again. He would rather suffer w/ some pain than be in a brainless fog.
Vicodin is not something to play games with. I agree with you on one point though. If he really wanted to mellow her out, he should have taken her to nice restaurant, ordered her a glass of wine (or something with chocolate in it) and left it at that.
I think jail time would do him some good because it looks like HE's the one who needs to mellow out, not her.