[SIZE=4]Guilty[/SIZE]! That's good! If she had gotten not guilty, I would personally go over there and drown her. Man, she totally deserved that ruling and she needs to be put to death. What a horrible woman and she tried to come up with a stupid excuse. What a loser. Now she loses her trial!

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by haux [/i]
[B][SIZE=4]Guilty[/SIZE]! That's good! If she had gotten not guilty, I would personally go over there and drown her. Man, she totally deserved that ruling and she needs to be put to death. What a horrible woman and she tried to come up with a stupid excuse. What a loser. Now she loses her trial! [/B][/QUOTE]I totally agree with you. I'm glad it was Guilty

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I see justice has been served. Drowning your own children, that's disgusting. She deserves the death penalty.

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it's more complicated than just the horrific nature of the crime, but i agree with the verdict. if you look at the timing of her actions, her methodical demeanor, and the fact that she recognized that society would view her acts as wrong was enough for me. i'm not saying that she wasn't sick or mentally ill (clearly she was) but texas law is strict--its simply a matter of whether or not she knew right or wrong at the exact time of the act. And I think she did, so guilty.

As for sentencing, I am against the death penalty. However, since we do have it, I think we need to apply it fairly and justly. And there are people on death row in Texas for far lesser crimes than the murder of five young children. So I guess I'd say she should get a lethal injection.

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I'm against the death penalty. As my friend says, she'll suffer more if she gets locked inside some really small cell.

I know that she's insane and all, but she says that she did it cuz "the devil told her to" or something like that. Another example of how religion messes some people up. (She and her husband belonged to some satanic sect thing... I heard)

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All of you have the natural instinct to bash Andrea Yates because she was a "murderer", who killed her very own children. But I have partial sympathy for her as well. A small percentage of American mothers every year get the same kind of post-pregnancy depression and they the symptoms are overwhelming. She was not psychotic nor insane. She was just incredibly depressed, they say the highest end on the depression scale. She did come to the point where she had psychotic-like symptoms. Most mothers never come close to getting as bad a case of post-pregranacy depression as Yates did, and that's a fortunate thing.

You can see that she was a good mother, just stricken by a extremely terrible condition. Her 4? 5? children were raised to about 2-7 years of age so you would know that she was close to her kids and that murder wasn't on her mind at all.

that's great im glad they didn't pull another OJ in the the ol' Judicial system.

i do feel sympathy for Yates because of the severe post-partum depression. However, for me that sympathy is mitigated because she was hospitalized after the fourth child (for her severe depression). the doctor flat-out warned her then to not have any more children, as the effects could be disasterous. But they went ahead and had a fifth child anyway. I think both Mr. and Mrs. Yates knew the extreme danger to her well-being if she had a fifth child, but they chose to have a child instead.

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I'm totally [B]FOR[/B] the death penalty and I am glad to see that it is being put to good use. Now she gets go see her old friend :devil: .

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[B]I'm totally [B]FOR[/B] the death penalty and I am glad to see that it is being put to good use. Now she gets go see her old friend :devil: . [/B][/QUOTE]

sentencing phase begins tomorrow, and could last a few days. then all twelve jurors must agree to the death penalty, or she'll get life. i personally don't have a clue which way they'll go, but i'd guess death.

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She deserves death. She deserves death by drowning in a tub. What a horrible woman. She knew exactly what she was doing and she knew it was wrong, because in the homocide interview the day of the murders she said to police Sgt. Eric Mehl:

[quote]MEHL: OK, is there anything that happened two years ago that, that made you, that you believe led you to have these thoughts?

YATES: I realized that it was time to be punished.

MEHL: And what do you need to be punished for?

YATES: For not being a good mother.

MEHL: How did you see drowning your five children as a way to be punished? Did you want the criminal justice system to punish you or did you . . .

YATES: Yes.
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full transcript [url]http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/drownings/1266294[/url]


She might be insane for thinking that she was not a good mother, but she knew that drowning her children was wrong because she knew that it warranted punishment from the criminal justice system. I am extremely pleased she was found guilty and I think she deserves the death penalty.

not everything is black and white. We don't know her exact mental state while she drowned her children, and even why. She was insane, at least I think so. She should not be locked away, she should be helped. And why would you want to go over there and drown her? Thats a horrible thing to say. I just don't think enough people put themselves in others shoes. Have you thought how her husband feels on this? After all she did, he still loves her. Granted he maye hate what she did, but he knows she wasnt herself. I think some of you are writing this off as a normal muder case, when its a lot more complex than that.

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im glad she is guily. i dont believe for a second in the insanity plea. Just because you were insaine when you did it, does that mean that you didn't do it? NO! You still did it so you are guilty. That is just an easy way out. People can control their actions at all times.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mrk468zz [/i]
[B]i do feel sympathy for Yates because of the severe post-partum depression. However, for me that sympathy is mitigated because she was hospitalized after the fourth child (for her severe depression). the doctor flat-out warned her then to not have any more children, as the effects could be disasterous. But they went ahead and had a fifth child anyway. I think both Mr. and Mrs. Yates knew the extreme danger to her well-being if she had a fifth child, but they chose to have a child instead. [/B][/QUOTE]


I do not feel sympathy for her at all but I do agree with you on how she shouldn't have had that 5th kid! That was kind of F@*#in' STUPID!I think that Mr. Yates new alot about her mental being and he is just as guilty as she is! I just can't undertsand the whole thing! It is just horrible! I mean why would you take some elses life if you were depressed- If I myself were that upset I would take my own life rather than some one elses- especially my own children! I do and don't support the death penalty! I say and eye for an eye- she deserves to die- but I would like to see her also sit in jail and live with that guilt for the rest of her life! Those women will tear her from end to end knowing that she killed her kids! I wouldn't want to be in her shoes for nothing in the world!

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This is similar to a recent case over here in the Chicago area. The woman on trial was a woman named Marilyn Lemak. She killed her own kids by drugging them, they found this to be as an act of revenge on her husband, who was divorcing her at the time and has no remarried. This crime actually happened in my hometown, and not far from where I was at the time the police responeded to it (I still remember sitting in class with the helicopters going overhead and police sirens all over the place (my classroom for that class was on the third floor)). Her insanity plea didn't work, as there was actual evidence of her changing behavior as the chances for her to get off on insanity grew, like she was learning how to act in order to get off. The prosecuter decided not to go for the death penalty in her case (although if he did I'd probably deep inside want her to get it). I'm personally against the death penalty, but since it's there I want it to be administered fairly (regardless of age (16+), sex, skin color, eye color, hair color, house size, annual wage, etc. it's almost sickening though how much men get the short end of the stick with the death penalty though).

For this case, if the prosecuter wants to bring the death penalty onto her, well, I'd really wish that they'd get rid of the death penalty, but given that it won't happen, and how mild some of the murders are of people already on there, I do believe that she should get it.