Cell punishment for stimulating suicide friend

boston - Michelle Carter, a 20-year-old American woman who invaded her 18-year-old friend in 2014, was sentenced to fifteen months in prison on Thursday. She also gets a conditional five-year celestial sentence, according to American media.

During the lawsuit, hundreds of texts were sent by the prosecutors, who Carter, at the age of 17, sent to her friend and received him. She encourages him, even if he doubts, to step out of life. Eventually, he committed suicide by poisoning himself with carbon monoxide.

Carter could get 20 years of cell. In the state of Massachusetts where the incident occurred, assistance in suicide is not considered a crime. In 20 other US states, this is the case. Therefore, the prosecutor had to prove that Carter was the guilty of suicide.