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.
Agreed.
The prosecution didn't even ask for the death penalty this time, and it did seem to be a half-hearted case on their part. And there won't be any more trials.
This is a pitiful woman who did a horrible thing and will now be kept behind locked doors, pumped full of drugs to protect her from herself.
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.