06 / January
06 / January
Court Overturns Mass-Murderer's Convictions

While we're on the subject of parents who kill their children, a court in Texas has just overturned the convictions of mass-murderer Andrea Yates. Mrs. Yates, you'll likely remember, drowned her five children in a bathtub. The National Organization for Women championed Yates's cause, falling just short of naming her Mother of the Year for 2001. Even many of those prone to sympathize with NOW found their defense of Yates, well, indefensible. It is, but it also could be seen as a logical extension of the pro-abortion position. If a group decries any restrictions on abortion even in the third trimester, should we really be shocked when they start calling for the decriminalization of the fourth-trimester abortion?

posted at 11:59 AM
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I'll give Andrea Yates a benefit of a doubt. Maybe she is delusional enough to be legally insane (meaning she is so delusional she cannot distinguish right & wrong). In which case, she is a danger to others an must be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Posted by: Paul on January 6, 2005 12:46 PM

either way it should be behind some for of razor or barbed wire fence.

Posted by: Morris on January 6, 2005 02:39 PM

form sorry

Posted by: Morris on January 6, 2005 02:40 PM

Regardless of her psychological condition, the woman should be executed. She murdered her children in rather gruesome fashion because she wanted to "save" them from the life she leads. The state should "save" her the trouble of living and be done with it.

Posted by: Brad on January 6, 2005 02:59 PM

Talk about your 'previews of the Apocalypse'!!!

And her husband is actually pulling for her.

Holy schnikies!!!!

Not one good reason to allow this sub-human to stay on the planet.

Posted by: asdf on January 10, 2005 12:00 PM
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