Oh no. She is just insane. Not a murderer. Just like good old John Hinckley. Just insane. Not a murderer. Just insane, like a loveable senile old auntie.
Insane. So was Gacy, Bundy, Richard Speck, Richard Ramirez. Everyone of them nuts as a toad. Oh yeah, they were men. Any killer can claim insanity anytime. Most of them have personality disorders that would qualify them for the same defense. Bleeding hearts are bleeding hearts, even on a conservative board.
You so called conservatives defending a woman's calculated mass murder of her own children make me sick. You excuse evil, just like liberals do. In fact, you should make sure Hillary or the next Democrat prez can have your names to appoint you to the bench. You guys sound just like Ruth Bader Ginzberg defending her own favorite criminal pets.
No offense, but you're not going to win many adherents to your brand of "conservatism" with incoherent posts like that. I prefer to trust the assessment of the mental health professionals who've independently evaluated her (one of whom, I know for a fact, is no bleeding heart liberal, not by a long shot) who have said this woman was the most disconnected from reality, most deeply delusional patients they'd ever seen, over the assessment of some guy spouting off about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's pets on an internet bulletin board.
These docs are not hired guns for the defense, these are some of the top practitoners in their field in the fourth largest city in the United States. They've seen many thousands of very sick puppies over their careers, and they agree that she was one of, if not the, most profoundly ill psychotics they'd ever come across.
I wonder if some of the self-proclaimed conservatives & Christians on this board would have some much blood lust today if Ms. Yates had had an epileptic seizure while driving and killed her children plowing into a telephone pole. Andrea Yates was as morally culpable for what she did to her children as somebody who accidentally sets his house on fire after falling into a diabetic coma while barbecuing. Her brain chemistry is so thoroughly out of whack that she qualifies for entry in one of those textbooks about medical anomalies, for heaven's sake.
Lest you continue to entertain your stated misconception that my beliefs on this issue are predicated on any sort of bleeding heart feminism, let me set you straight: none of us here are "excusing evil" as you claim; we merely believe that it would be neither as just nor as humane to "play God" & execute this woman as it would be to kill the man with cognitive judgement so completely distorted by a brain tumor that he shoots up his family.
The peversely viscious brand of conservative christianity some folks are peddling on this thread has absolutely no appeal to me, 'Luke21', and never will. The self-proclaimed "christians" on this board spewing nasty ad hominem invectives against other religious conservatives who happen to disagree with you guys are wasting your time with me. And for those (not you Luke - you had the guts and the integrity to challenge me to my face) who felt the need to send me private messages to inform me that I am the spawn of the devil & will writhe in the flames of eternal damnation for disagreeing with them on this issue: peace be with you, folks, peace be with you.
Luke 21 meet Luke 8 v26-36.