That is insane. 9 years?

The judge wants to manifest social repulsion for what she did after killing him. I would bet she won't serve much of the sentence.

Yes, so do I , and I would probably have acted the same way. It seems the punishment is more for how she treated his body after death that the actual murder...which makes no sense to me, a corpse is after all just a body devoid of life. I feel for his family, but the fact that they feel the grief of his loss should in no way have any bearing on the case in my opinion. Sometimes the law is an ass, and I think this is one of the times.