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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Andrea Yates became a more sympathetic figure over time, as more details came out about her husband and there was increased public awareness about PPP. I don't recall any outrage whatsoever about the verdict at her second trial. It's probably because of the groundwork her case laid that Clancy is being treated more sympathetically from the off.

I can be both horrified by what happened to the Yates children and sympathetic to Andrea Yates. She was completely out of her mind. And to be restored to her mind, she then had to come to grips with what she'd done while out of it, which sounds like an unspeakable hell. [b]Apparently she refuses to be reviewed for release from the mental hospital every year even though she might be eligible at this point.[/b] [/quote]

What a saint. 🙄🙄

I have no sympathy for these murderers. I know plenty of less-affluent women with the same (if not more) mental struggles, and they managed to not kill their children.

[i]I also doubt you all would give them such a pass anyway.[/i]

I’ll save my sympathy for the dead children and the less-sympathetic mothers out there.[/quote]
+1 As if any of these people claiming we should have sympathy for a murderer were sympathetic to Cho when he murdered ~30 people at Tech.[/quote]
Or James Holmes, the movie theater killer, for whom the insanity defense did not work, despite evidence in his medical records and testimony at trial. I feel for all suffering from mental illness and these victims. We are currently working within an imperfect legal and mental health system and definining not guilty by reason of insanity in a way that is difficult to establish. I think it's understandable to see why this is, though, as people who are not guilty cannot be held indefinitely against their will. [/quote]

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