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Gimme a break, Marty. It's a fact that the death of her father sent her spiralling into a deeper depression.

This woman was psychotic before, on and after that terrible day - all the psychiatrists testified thus, and it's being reiterated on Fox now. She was willing to break the "earthly" law to save her children's souls, and take the punishment. Not exactly rational thinking. It was a "loving" act in her irrational mind.

May God judge you all as "mercifully" as you have judged Andrea.

I'm sickened by the cruelty displayed on this thread toward an obviously very sick woman. I think everyone should be sentenced to a week of extreme depression and mental illness so that they may have at least some right to judge someone like this.

Andrea is NO SUSAN SMITH.

And I am in basic agreement with the verdict, btw, although I think the laws need to be revised for cases involving mental illness. I think she belongs in a mental institution, not a prison. Nevertheless, justice will be served, and God and her children have already forgiven her. I pray she can forgive herself.

God and her children have already forgiven her

You got one hell of a nerve speaking for God, let alone speaking for the victims of Yates' act of murder. You don't know crap about what God thinks, so get off your high horse. You are the worst kind of pious Christian - a self serving prig who "speaks for God". Read your Bible - it makes clear that God doesn't forgive everyone and every evil act. He specifically has a problem with murder, or did you miss those 500 or so verses. True forgiveness is dispensed by God on His terms, not your callous waving of the hand and claiming it. You don't know what is in Yates' mind, or her slaughtered children's mind, and most of all God's mind - so can it.

Dr. Dietz who testified for the prosecution just stated on Fox that he feels she is/was schizophrenic.

My brother suffered from schizophrenia.

Having lived under the same roof with someone who had this illness, I feel sad when I read some of the comments people have made about Andrea Yates. They needn't wish her to hell; mental illness is a hell of its own.

I was reminded today of an occasion where I witnessed my brother (who was 15 years older than me, and eventually succeeded with a suicide attempt) having a total breakdown; still, he recognized me. He knew where he was. He was just going to go outside in a bathrobe in January in Wisconsin and take a swim - that's all.

This is not an all-or-nothing situation. They can be lucid about some things, and lost about others.

I think the verdict was the correct one under Texas law, but I am glad they're not going to execute her. She's a sick woman - and you're right - she's no Susan Smith. There was no benefit for her. She's just sick.

And I believe that God has mercy on the sick. I trust that He has enveloped those babies in His love, and I agree with you - if they are where I think they are, they have already forgiven their mother.