Why does the Mushroom killer deserve parole ?

You are completely misinterpreting what I meant. Obviously, people who are mentally ill are no more dangerous than any sane person. In fact, it is usually the person who is ill who is a danger to themselves rather than others.

However, as it has already been pointed out that this woman apparently had no particular axe to grind with various members of her family and appeared to be quite fond of them, surely that points to someone who is insane? Or do you subscribe to the "born evil" theory?

Eloethansurely we have to ask ‘why now’ she had known these people for donkey years I don’t for a minute think she was mentally ill there is nothing to suggest that If she was mentally ‘insane’ as you put it, it would suggest she had a brainstorm in those few days before, but she planned
this to the last tee which to me suggests she had been brewing some hatred for these people for a long time and it built up and built up
She was very calm with it all, it wasn’t just a hotheaded mad moment. It could have all grown in her head over something small

I agree- without knowing anything except what is in the media I would say there may have been some simmering resentment that had taken hold and there were no counter-forces to stop her.

It is for me one of the keenest expressions of mediocrity- she blended in and no one noticed her until she did something so outrageous that she believed she could get eternal notoriety.

It isn't those we percieve as 'bad' we have to look out for, but those who appear to be just like us.

She is by no means a stupid person . She used to be an air traffic controller at one stage of her life apparently. Very,very strange woman. She could have ‘got away with it’ by claiming to have picked the mushrooms thinking they were edible ones,too. Whoever knows what was going through her mind ?

Eloethan there are many people in society who are psychopaths, or have psychopathic tendencies. The main behaviour being that they have no empathy with or compassion or understanding of other people's feelings.

Most people with psychopathy or a tendency that way, will live normal lives for all of their lives, but sometimes something will trigger a dislike of someone or some group, and they can decide that the best way to deal with the problem is to kill them - so they do.

This certainly wasn’t some temporary moment of madness as it had been meticulously planned for many months.

Then as was pointed out earlier, she had previously tried to poison her husband on a number of occasions.

I guess the true motive will remain a mystery.

What surprises me is that she chose to kill so many all at once.

Surely if you decide to commit murder, especially in this planned cold blooded way, you do not want to be caught and sent to prison for life. So giving a group of close family members poisoned home cooked food, even if all it does is just make them ill, is bound to draw the authority's attention to the food and the cook.

In fact I do wonder whether her original plan was just to make them ill, so she could enjoy seeing them suffer, but she over did it. The same with the poisoning of her husband, the intention was to enjoy seeing him suffer, rather than to kill him.

Since she has said nothing, we can never know, and the prosecution, obviously would not raise the issue, and presumably the defence couldn't suggest this because she said nothing inher defence.