either AY was psychotic, even if only at certain times in her life, or she was evil......
I look at the faces of her smiling, happy children and I don't see them being raised unhappy, so I discount evil.....
I don't excuse her actions, but the signs for the doctor and infact her whole family were right there in plain sight......
I am not a doctor and am usually pretty hard line when a killer tries to use a mental illness defense but everything I've read and heard about Yates says that this was one very sick woman and probably still is.
If she doesn't fit the legal definition of insanity, probably no one does.
She is SANE and EVIL.
HOUSTON — The day after drowning her five children in a bathtub, Andrea Yates told a jail psychiatrist that she had decided to do it the night before and that she knew it was wrong, a sheriff's deputy who overheard their interview testified Wednesday.
"She said, 'I considered using a knife, but that would be too bloody. I considered using a gun, but that would be too noisy. I decided that drowning would be the safest way to take them into the next world,' " Deputy Michael Stephens told jurors in Yates' second capital murder trial...