Posted on 03/12/2002 2:02:06 PM PST by GRRRRR
You know it'll be the needle. I just hope the appeals last long enough... long enough for her to dwell on what she did.
Why? It IS breaking news.
Oops, her children will be spending eternity in Heaven. I suspect God has another place for folks who commit mass murder in His name: she'll spend eternity with the Taliban. Won't that be Hell.
Sorry
I hope this delivers a message: Murdering your children, no matter what "depression" you suffer from, is inexcusable.
I was truly fearful a not-guilty verdict would create a spate of "post-partum" moms killing their kids.
I was driving in my car and thought I'm gonna have to calm myself down if this woman is found anything but GUILTY!!!
They are still trying to spin this verdict on pmsnbc, Dan's gonna have to get some new programming cause he won't be able to milk this case for a few more weeks.
One of his guests was in the courtroom and her comments are that it's a shame that the jury didn't look at the "whole picture" and she was concerned when the prosecutor kept zooming in on Andrea's comments post the murder that she knew it was WRONG to kill them.... the expert wished they had LOOKED AT THE WHOLE PICTURE!!! Sorry but no one's drinking the Kool-Aid on this one
what whole picture? The drowned babies in the tub? She wanted a pass/go card for the murders cause she had "issues".
EIGHT WOMEN, on the jury as Dan pointed out, certainly a jury of her peers and this woman winced - Thank GOD these women did the right thing (and the 4 men too)!
Well, this is one Texas attorney who wasn't surprised. The only question from the start was whether this jury would follow Texas law and the jury instructions given by the judge. If the answer was yes, then this verdict was a no-brainer.
Harris County, Texas does not mess around, and we don't have OJ Juries here.
Naturally, we are going to hear from the national media how awful this is and how juries in Texas don't get it.
But they DO get it. It's the law.
Great point. That raises another interesting issue though - can the jury, at the time they decide on 'future threat' take into account that the alternative to death is life in prison and therefore, she's unlikely to kill anyone else.
Paying with your life for drowning your children - "Good choice"
LOL No Demidogs in Harris County?
She sounds perfectly sane to me...
The jury is going to be asked if she poses a threat to society. Answer: Yes. Left alone with another child, there is a substantial risk to that child's health.
The other question is whether there are any mitigating circumstances.
The question there is whether her mental health was a mitigating circumstance. Should she be punished less because of it?
That's a far more interesting question, and one I suspect the jury will take much longer to deliberate. My guess is that they will consider it a mitigating factor and sentence her to life instead of death.
However, the speed in which this jury returned a verdict didn't indicate that anybody was wavering as to whether she was morally culpable. And, ironically, a death sentence might be more merciful than life imprisonment for her.
I'm less certain about the punishment than I was about the verdict. I'd put maybe a 75% chance on NO death penalty.
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