Illinois mother accused of killing her three children found guilty; jury rejects insanity claim

AP ^ | 12-19-01 | ANDREW BUCHANAN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) -- A 44-year-old woman who smothered her three young children after tucking them into bed was found guilty of murder Wednesday by a jury that rejected her claim of insanity.

Marilyn Lemak admitted killing Thomas, 3, Emily, 6, and Nicholas, 7, in March 1999, but defense and prosecutors were split on her state of mind.

[egarvue]

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against Lemak.

Hopefully, when the time comes to send this so-called "mother" to hell, we in Illinois will have wiped the slime that is our current governor from our shoes, and have elected someone who has the courage to follow through with justice against murderers.

[concerned about politics]

Three more innocent souls are dead. Give her the death penality.
Liberalism may have drivin her insane, but she chose to listen to the demons, and now must pay for her choices.
Not everyone can cry "victim" and be set free. You have to be a 'rich' liberal to buy your way out.

"These murders were not the byproduct of mental illness or depression (but the actions of) a very angry, very jealous and very manipulative woman,"
Yep. I agree.I hope the "victim" thing turns around and devours her.

[another cricket]

Prosecutors say Lemak knew what she was doing when she killed the children, contending she wanted to punish her physician husband, David, over their pending divorce and because he had started seeing another woman.

Prosecutors are probably right. Woman generally kill their kids for one of three reasons.
They are "to much trouble"
The current man in their life doesn't want/like kids
To get back at the kids Father
Cricket

[Hal.009]

"she wanted to kill her children and herself so they could be reunited in a better place"

Seems to me she will never get her wish, since she won't end up in the same place as her children.

I don't think Mothers Day is a hoilday in Hell.

[2nd_Ammendment_Defender]

Authorities say Lemak fed her children peanut butter laced with her anti-anxiety medication, tucked them into bed, sang them a lullaby and then smothered them with her bare hands. She later slashed her wrists with a knife and stabbed a photograph of her estranged husband with his new girlfriend.

This lady deserves the death penalty or a mental hospital for the rest of her life.

[BillyBoy]

>> Hopefully, when the time comes to send this so-called "mother" to hell, we in Illinois will have wiped the slime that is our current governor from our shoes, and have elected someone who has the courage to follow through with justice against murderers. <<

Amen. Jaffe "the womb ripper" needs to get the chair for his goolish murders as well. Thank God Governor RINO wasn't running this state back in the 90s, because we'd have all these animals walking the streets along with John Wayne Gacy.