Amen ?

[xosmi]

Some more news, just llet me know what you think about this, personally, i think people like this would be better off being put away for life.

Jury Acquits Texas Mother Who Killed Sons

TYLER, Texas - A woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in the heads of her sons was acquitted Saturday of all charges after a jury determined she was legally insane during the killings.

A jury found that Deanna Laney did not know right from wrong May 9 when she killed her two older sons, ages 6 and 8, in the front yard and left the youngest, now 2, maimed in his crib. Laney, 39, was found not guilty by reason of insanity of charges of capital murder and serious injury to a child.

Laney broke into tears as the verdict was read. Her husband, Keith Laney, sat emotionless. A few jurors cried and struggled to maintain their composure.

State law allows Laney to be committed to a maximum security state hospital. Medical evaluations will dictate when she will be released.

In closing arguments earlier Saturday, prosecutors portrayed the killings last Mother's Day weekend as deceptively planned and coldly executed.

"It was graphic, it was horrific and it was brutal," prosecutor Matt Bingham told the jury.

Laney had faced life in prison for the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke, and the beating of Aaron, now 2.

Bingham pounded his fist in his hand as he recounted Joshua's killing: "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid."

Defense attorneys argued that insanity was the only reason why a deeply religious mother who homeschooled her children would kill two of them and maim another without so much as a tear.

All five mental health experts consulted in the case, including two for the prosecution and one for the judge, concluded that a severe mental illness caused Laney to have psychotic delusions that rendered her incapable of knowing right from wrong during the killings � the standard in Texas for insanity.

Psychiatrists testified that Laney believed she was divinely chosen by God � just as Mary was chosen to bear Christ � to kill her children as a test of faith and then serve as a witness after the world ended.

Prosecutors portrayed the killings as deceptively planned and coldly executed. They said that even if Laney believed she was doing right by God, she had to have known she was doing wrong by state law. Her first call, they pointed out, was to 911 to summon authorities.

[Domingo]

Yeah... now we can all go out and kill our children, as long as we don't cry about it, and say that God told us to.

I can't believe that a jury would believe any of that God-told-me-to-do-it stuff, though... she's completely crazy, and I should know - God told me... :\

[Ziegfried]

/me says, "if you commit a crime, you should be punished for it, insane or not."

[((KvN))]

Why no lie detector tests these days?!

[Dingy]

they don't work on heartless beasts like her ((X ZreX))
what in the world is happening to people, this woman in a village in India randomly kidnapped a 2 yr old boy and publicly sacrificed him by slamming his head against a stone wall claiming she had been told by god to do so,as it would stop her husband from abusing her.

This man in Delhi, he has 3 daughters and 2 wives and he raped both his elder daughters and had 3 children with them each and was arrested when he tried to do the same with his 10 yr old, youngest daughter...and then he stated that he didn't know who these women were and why they were bothering him.
There are a litany of cases like this which happen everyday here and no one says a word.

[ZeikHunter]

yeah, shit like that is insane, but if the court says she was crazy, who's to argue. there are some people in the world with tue mental illnesses, she may be one of them. as a texan, i usually stand by my local legal system, so all i can say is, God Bless Texas

[Akerie]

Originally posted by ((X ZreX))
Why no lie detector tests these days?!

They never have held up in courts of law - they're not usually taken because they have flaws and the jury can't have their decision swayed by a non-certain test. I think...

[karragh]

I've never understood why insanity gets you off scot free, it's stupid, someones personallity(which could enable them to kill) and someones sanity( which lack of could enable them to kill) both come from there mental system, but if you have a flaw in the later of the two you may aswell just get a slap on the wrist...

[Josh]

I just think that there are more stupid people out there. It think it is time for my government teacher's plan to rid the world of stupid people to unfold. We won't kill them or anything. We will just sterilize them so they can't raise stupid kids. If the problem persists you can take warning lables of everything. If the problem still persists you can just put them all on an island.

[karragh]

Originally posted by knowitman
I just think that there are more stupid people out there. It think it is time for my government teacher's plan to rid the world of stupid people to unfold. We won't kill them or anything. We will just sterilize them so they can't raise stupid kids.

A parents intelligence level has no baring on the intelligence of the off spring.

[artist088]

all i can say is some people in this world are seriously fucked up.

[reagan80]

Give me a break.........The Scriptures have never set a precedent that would make that defense legitimate...........God told Abraham to kill his son, Isaac, but God ended up telling Abraham to stop at the last minute.

Insanity my ass...........That woman was crying during the trial. If she was really insane, she wouldn't have been crying since she would be insane and not find anything wrong with killing her kids. Instead, she cried and that means she knew she did something wrong when she killed her kids. I hope that bitch gets her tubes tied and never gets out of the asylum to procreate more victims. I can't believe those dumbass jurors acquitted her........


I like Texas and its willingness to use capital punishment on murderers, but they have got some extreme retards in their juries.

Here's another outrageous O.J. Simpson-like case............http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/11/durst.verdict/

[karragh]

Originally posted by reagan80

I like Texas and its willingness to use capital punishment on murderers, but they have got some extreme retards in their juries.

There is almost always a chance someone is innocent, so capital punishment is never a good idea, because if we have it only for cases where there isn't a shadow of a doubt, people will complain double standards when one person gets death and the other gets life.

Like with louis Reil and his subordinate(can't remember his name)

[Xaenn]

Originally posted by Skinner8
/me says, "if you commit a crime, you should be punished for it, insane or not."

Nothing needs to be added to that.

[EGGO]

Should we remind Bush then of his warcrime and religious war?