Posted on 07/26/2006 9:35:01 AM PDT by cajunman
Maybe, maybe not because she certainly isn't INNOCENT. The term 'not guilty by reason of insanity' needs to be changed imho. It sounds like 'innocent' to me.
My bad... I read your post wrong.
I forgot to mention...at the last moment,the bomber decided he did not want to be rewarded that particular day.
A victory for NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and NOW
Why are you yelling at me? I'm not arguing with you.
"With their gender perhaps?"
Of course.
So I repeat, to all of you who sympathize with Andrea Yates as a "sick woman who needs help", why not a treatment program, for say poor Ted Bundy and his insane addiction to pornography and sadism.
I see little difference.
That is my fear. I know mental illness is real, I have witnessed it first hand. However, I am more concerned by how much we have cheapened life and this verdict cheapens it a little more. I just hope she never gets out of whatever facility she is put in.
Oh good grief.
Will the jury be safe on the streets of Texas?
Having lived a while in Texas, I do believe that if Texans said not guilty because of insanity, then they must have felt really strongly that it was, cause Texans, as a rule are hard nosed about this sort of thing, even in cases where I felt differently about it. They don't lightly rule like this. It's not part of the Texan view of justice.
"Now she gets to get three hots and a cot"
That’s not the worst of it. As soon as she can convince her shrink that she has been "repaired" , they will turn her loose.
That’s the REAL flaw in this, IMHO
Her husband is looney and now he's married off to someone else. Andrea is yesterday's news to him.
That I don't know. I don't think they were married that long ago.
Look at the douchebag response to the verdict at DU if you really want to barf (it's either Yates' husband's fault or society failed to help her).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2414710
The chemicals she needs are sodium pentothal, chloral hydrate and potassium chloride.
As to either one of them, should they retain the 'right' to procreate again? Should either have kids with anyone else?
Do blondes have a button for that?
For those who think the woman can be rehabilitated, let one of them be the first to hire her as a Nanny to "babysit" their own children when she gets out. (Any volunteers?)
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Click 2 Houston said earlier and just not repeated, she was "acquitted by reason of insanity".
People have no idea what Post Partum depression is like. You have no control over your feelings, and in her case it progressed into a psychosis. This is not your "average" depressed person. She had a chemical imbalance, that did not get treated properly. Her husband is the one to blame. She was in the hospital the week before I believe. If your wife had just been released from the hospital with a heart condition, you wouldn't leave her alone.
I don't know what her punishment should be, that is a tough one, because she did kill her children, but I do know this is not a Susan Smith case. This woman was ill. I wish she would have just killed herself, as she tried to in the past, but I don't believe she was a "blood thirsty murderer" either.
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