[Oldeconomybuyer]

11:44 PST HOUSTON (AP) -- After less than an hour of deliberations, a jury spared Andrea Yates from death row Friday and sentenced her instead to life in prison for drowning her children in the bathtub.

[HamiltonJay]

Not suprising, she's definately ill and the prosecutor even instructed the jury it was ok not to sentence her to death before they went into deliberate...

[MEGoody]

This is what I expected, but I have to wonder if the death penalty wouldn't have actually been more merciful.