That is my fear. I know mental illness is real, I have witnessed it first hand. However, I am more concerned by how much we have cheapened life and this verdict cheapens it a little more. I just hope she never gets out of whatever facility she is put in.
I know what you are saying. I have compassion for those who are mentally ill, but that compassion comes to a screeching halt when the law is broken and/or murder is committed. People have become just too cowardly to take a stand against what they know to be wrong. And the result is that people like the Yates person? get to murder their children and anyone else just as long as they tell the dirt-face attorney they were insane at the time. And if they don't tell the attorney that, well by golly, the attorney WILL tell them...