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To: friendly
"Either schizophrenia, or (more likely) untreated post-partum psychosis, big time."

Surely it's not murder, women just don't commit such crimes ---

5 posted on 07/06/2003 8:05:04 AM PDT by TheCrusader
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To: TheCrusader
Oh it is murder all right. But we really prepared to execute someone who was "screaming incoherently" as she threw herself and her babies 75 feet to the Mississippi River?

The law (and justice) recognizes gradients in homicidal guilt, with differing punishments. I have no doubt that most of the posters here will cry out for her death, but this would not meet the requirements of justice.

11 posted on 07/06/2003 8:21:13 AM PDT by friendly ((Badges?, we don gots to show no stinkin' badges!))
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