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IMO the murder of your children is unforgiveable. Depression should not be a valid excuse for ending their lives by drowning them with your bare hands. What kind of a productive life will she lead, even with treatment, only to be haunted by the fact that SHE KILLED HER KIDS? Throw away the key. Boo, jury.

 

Both sides agreed that she was mentall ill. Once the prosecution agrees to that, it begins chipping away pretty steadily at the two requirements to fulfill (the State of Texas') requirements for a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity plea.

What more need be discussed? The blame is on the prosecutors for setting up a bad case, and to The State for assuming the arguments for the first case were airtight (when it clearly shows they weren't).

 

Tree jail for her

 

a psych ward is the best place for her. there she can get the help she really needs.

 

. . . to a point. . . she won't get a hystererctomy (unless she volunteers). She'll be in a position to have more kids, and no legal way to stop her from having more kids if she is released.

 

in most states, AFAIK, committment means no set release date, so she could very likely spend the rest of her life in a psych ward - eseentially a prison with better medical.

 

She gets sent to the nut house instead of the big house. Another tragedy in the American justic system. She should fry in the chair for what she did.

 

Isn't drowning kids by hand in a bathtub the very definition of insanity.

 

Thats a cheap cop-out. For most people, planning and killing another person seems insane. This just shows that our legal system has a different set of standards for women. If a man would have committed this crime they would have already pumped him full of potassium chloride already. Women are less likely to be held responsible of heinous crimes.