Posted on 07/26/2006 9:35:01 AM PDT by cajunman
"Not guilty. Amen. If ever there were a case where someone was not guilty by reason of insanity, this was it."
I have to agree to this, though I know this will not be the majority view. I base my opinion on my personal experience of post partum depression. I suffered, tremendously, after the birth of my first son, a much wanted, loved, and desired child.
For almost one year, I could NOT function, think, or even care for my child properly. Many days were spent in tears, and depression so deep I could hardly raise my head some days. It made no sense to me, and for a long time I could not shake it. Very scary time.
SHE suffered depression MUCH more debilitating and extreme than mine. My experiece lets me understand HOW this formerly loving and attentive mother COULD have so lost touch with reality that these HORRIBLE crimes could have been committed by her.
I could be wrong, I just don't know. God will sort it out eventually. Our lifetimes are so brief in the overall scheme of things. If this verdict was unjust, He will have the final say.
She, hopefully, will be hospitalized for many, many years, and hopefully, for the rest of her life.
pattyjo
She is a serial killer and she got away with murder under the eyes of Texas.
What a shame that this is what our society has become.
She was on trial for 3 of them. I am not sure of what the next step is though. I think that is up to the DA if they want to go to trial for the other 2.
She can indeed be free again. Fox just reported that before the verdict.
Insanity huh?. Whose?
Zackly. She showed no signs of being anything but a loving mother before the incident happened. Obviously, something snapped and that's what insanity is.
A white-trash woman with a history of selling her kids, shooting drugs, stealing stuff, making jokes about murder, desperately wanting "the easy life," calling the kids a burden, or any combination of those factors would point to a different - and criminal - motive.
Andrea Yates was not like that, something very strange happened. Long history of mental problems, is that a clue? Only stupid people would not take that as a clue. Of course she will need to go to a mental hospital, probably forever. But jail isn't the right place for her. That is for people like Susan Smith. Andrea is a very different kind of case.
She wouldn't last long on the streets.
Three. So, I assume, the state can still try her for the other two.
Look - we don't murder our insane no matter how much we wish to see them suffer.
If we did, we would be guilty of murder ourselves and subject to being in front of a jury for murder for revenge - sane, supposedly.
Apparently you feel it is ok to ignore insanity and just kill off any offender. So, what does that then make you? They killed because their minds are defective, you kill because you want revenge, you want the joy of seeing a person that committed an atrocity pay for that atrocity without regard for their abilities.
I can't help but think that puts you in a worse situation than the original murderer on Judgement Day.
But - what do I know.
Yes,by all accounts, a profoundly psychotic woman. I'm not going to argue with all the flames I expect to get here today defending this verdict. Folks just have no idea how deeply mentally ill this woman is; executing her for this would be amoral.(Frankly, I don't think the prosecutor's office went out of their way to do their best work in the retrial - by all accounts, they went through the motions here, no pun intended.)She's not going free, by any means.Horrific tragedy. Sane verdict.
Murdered before your tenth birthday. Yeah, that is unfortunate, isn't.
What a despicable word choice.
It would just be a waste of time and money.
Yep. "Guilty but Insane" should be the verdict. Send her to a pshchiatric hospital and try and get her well. Then when she is well, lock he murdering ass in jail for the rest of her life. Either that of kill her. She should never, ever see the outside world again.
Do you extend this courtesy to all murderers or just this one?
Rusty is not all-there either, IMHO.
Nicely, eloquently, said.
If Kerry were president this wouldn't have happened.
Every time I think of those innocents drowned by their own mother and the oldest boy running and trying to escape from her murderous intent, I am infuriated anew. Insane or not, she herself should be put to death IMO.
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