If Deleware doesn’t allow for smothering, I’d settle for whatever means of execution they do allow.
That said, I think that the day care owners likely carry some responsibility as well. The training looks to have lacked something, and one would think that a second person would be checking in every half hour or so—I bet the kid was a little out of control for at least a bit before the perp took things into her own hands.
You can’t train away a heart that will murder the helpless. You may not even be able to detect it.
... well, aside from asking for opinions about abortion.
Two criticisms; a four month old infant is not a "kid" and as such was never "in control". An infant that young can only be comforted, fed or cleaned. It cannot be controlled, because it's own self-control mechanisms are undeveloped. Poor thing was probably colicky and that requires more stoicism than most young undereducated, poorly trained "caregivers" possess.