[Oldeconomybuyer]

11:48 PST (AP) -- The 37-year-old housewife will have to serve at least 40 years before becoming eligible for parole.

Yates stood while the verdict was read, her attorney's arm around her. Her attorneys smiled, but there was no apparent reaction from her.

The same jury that took less than four hours to reject her claim of insanity and convict her of murder Tuesday returned the sentence with similar swiftness, after prosecutors made a less-than-forceful push for the death penalty.

[xzins]

I can easily believe it. The prosecution didn't even challenge during the sentence hearing. They sent a signal that they believed all along that Yates was a life case, not a capital case. The jury went along.

Mitigation, though, made it impossible for the prosecution to argue otherwise. EVERYONE accepted that this lady had some major screws loose.

She gets out a 77 years old after 40 years. She won't have any grandkids for us to worry about, will she?

I predict her husband divorces her in the next 3 years and remarries. Any takers?

[Ipberg]

I'm surprised. I thought the Texas jury would hand down a death sentence. If it was a Texan father who killed the kids, you better believe that's the verdict. There's a double standard even in Texas.

[Bonaparte]

AP wire: "The same jury that took less than four hours to reject her claim of insanity and convict her of murder Tuesday returned the sentence with similar swiftness..."

Didn't take AP long to start bashing the jury's "rush to judgment," did it?