After reading the novel Misery by Stephen King, I have decided to write my essay about, Should people with mental illnesses be accountable for their actions as much as people who do not have a mental illness. For example, Is it justifiable to let someone walk away from prison in two or three years after murdering her children after she was diagnosed with mental illness?I plan on researching both point of views on this subject. I'm not even certain that I share a point of view just yet . I guess that I'm leaning towards taking it easy on the mental illness person because I have a sister in law that has a mental illness and if she had broken the law in some type of manner and I was on the jury it would be hard for me to convict her because I know how bad her mental illness really effects her. It does bother me when you hear people claim to have mental illnesses to get a lighter sentence.