Michelle Carter Should Be Tried For Murder

On July 12th, 2014, Conrad Roy III committed suicide by suffocating himself with carbon monoxide in his truck. This is after having been encouraged to do so by his girlfriend, Michelle Carter. At the time of his death, Ms. Carter was on the phone with him and, after supporting him to take his own life, was witness to his dying and failed to alert authorities or the boy’s parents during and after Roy’s death. For her actions, and lack thereof, Michelle Carter was on trial with the possibility of a sentence of 20 years in prison. However, after her attorney addressed that she had mental conditions of her own, such as eating disorders and being put on antidepressants, Ms. Carter received a mere 15-month prison sentence with an extended period …show more content…
This case was never about if Michelle’s actions led to Conrad’s suicide, but if Michelle, with her mental illness and the anti-depression medication she was taking, could 1, be punished for the text messages she sent to Roy, and 2, if she had ill intent when she told Conrad to commit suicide. (Sanchez R.) I believe that Michelle intended to have Roy kill himself because she loved him, and did not want to see him struggle/suffer any more than he said he was, but if she had really loved and cared for him, she would have done more to save his life. Through the thousands of text messages sent between the couple (they were intimate with each other through their phones) Michelle constantly told Conrad not to commit suicide, but one day suddenly, she was telling him to do the opposite. She was telling him to commit suicide, to not back out, to “just do it”. So the question is, what changed? How, and why did Michelle go from constantly pleading with her boyfriend not to kill himself, to almost an irritated attitude when he doesn’t kill