Reason First: The Eye Drop Murderer

Can this case be any clearer? Anyone with eyes can see that South Carolinian Lana Sue Clayton is guilty of murder. Her feelings and emotions clouded her thoughts and disrupted her ability to reason. She deliberately placed significant amounts of eye drops, which contain tetrahydrozoline into her husband’s drinking water. This chemical has the power to decrease the size of blood vessels. In large amounts, the tetrahydrozoline could bring down anyone through the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system. How did she even come to the point of going against her spouse? She claims that she just wanted to make him ‘uncomfortable.’ To make someone uncomfortable would mean to ask questions, seek counseling, and engage in reasoning. He might have felt pangs of uneasiness but he would still have been alive. That should be enough to keep her behind the wall. Well, how much discomfort should you allow before you commit homicide?

Clayton faces 25 years plus 20 years for tampering with evidence. But this is an obvious injustice. Drug manufacturers who never violated anyone’s rights get life sentences. Some even push for them to be put to death in some states. Clayton’s deliberate intent to do harm to her husband should be weighed with narcotics producers who do not breach any proper political statutes. She should be electrified, hanged, or have lethal chemicals to pass through her veins.

Clayton is either incompetent or a vicious slayer. The latter seems to be the reality. She had to have some semblance of an idea to destroy the life of someone she once valued. She may have been abused by her spouse. Her husband could have stomped her ears together. But that doesn’t give anyone license to extinguish another life. This case regards not self defense, but premeditated murder. Clayton would’ve known that the chemical in eye drops can affect the blood levels to a toxic, lethal status. She must’ve known that she held the power of death in just a few droplets. How did she even know to use Visine to “harm” her husband? What did she do? Did she ransack the medicine cabinet and stumble upon something clear and potentially deadly?

25 years is too short and lenient for Clayton. Her motive to actually inflict danger upon her significant other led her to do the worst thing to someone whom she once loved. South Carolina upholds capital punishment. She should be sent straight to death row. There existed many outlets to deal with her husband’s abuse. She could have sought out law enforcement, domestic violence groups, and other organizations.

She is now probably going to have her sentence commuted. In an ability to appeal the case, she may experience over a decade in prison, maybe two. She’ll most likely be let out early, though. How could she not have known that the eye drops would constrict the blood vessels? What did she do before landing upon eye drops? Did she go through a laundry list of various ways to dispatch her husband? Her idea of murdering her husband was like an alley cat cannibalizing another cat. But she possessed more intent than any feline.

So, that’s the way to go? Instead of a stabbing, shooting, or putting WD-40 in his grits, Clayton chose to use eye drops. What propelled her to do this? Where did she learn about even trying to “harm” her husband?

The truth remains. Clayton could have killed him in any fashion but she developed in her mind a way for the blood constricting chemical to be ingested in large amounts and therefore fatal.

Clayton ought to experience her consciousness screaming at her. She should live out the rest of her days in mental anguish for her horrific act.

Here is the original story from The New York Times:

Woman Used Eye Drops to Kill Husband, Court Says

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/visine-eye-drop-poisoning.amp.html