wow, Andrea Yates found guilty...

[danielson]

This isn't really a valid point when it comes to justice... but wouldn't it be considerable cheaper to execute her in 10-12 years (or whatever amount of time it may take) then to keep her alive and healthy for the next 40 years.

its actually cheapr to imprison them for life than it is to kill em

when your sentrnced to death their is a lot of lega work to make sure you guilty etc, much $$ spent

 

[primetime21]

ladymacbeth, the reason you toast her is to tell people that if you kill people (especailly kids) you will pay the price even if you try to use some BS excuse as postpardem depression. I understand that it may be tough on some women, but that is no excuse for killing your kids one by one in a brutal fashion. If she had just exploded and punched 1 kid to death i would have more sympathy, but this was way to detailed of a killing. I doubt there will be any more women in texas killing their kids. "Deterrence" in a word.

By the way, would any of this be news if she had killed somoene elses kids in this manner? doubt it. So what these yates advocates are saying is that if you kill someone elses kids its bad, but killing your own kids is fine.

 

[SofaGeorge]

By the way, would any of this be news if she had killed somoene elses kids in this manner? doubt it. So what these yates advocates are saying is that if you kill someone elses kids its bad, but killing your own kids is fine.

I've always found this a pervasive and insane logic that somehow it si more "acceptable" for women to kill their own children.

I remember one very famous Colorado murder case. A woman just murdered her second child. She had killed her other kid like 10 years before. Another woman that I knew was arguing that this woman should only get a couple years (like she did the first time) because she really didn't present a danger to society... after all... she only murdered her OWN children.

 

[-SD-]

Guilty of Capital murder= State prison, not mental ward.