In the wake of the Andrea Yates trial, I ask you America...Is there any justice in this country?

Question

With Andrea Yates getting away with murdering her 5 kids, I ask if there is truly any justice in our country. With a legal system that has so much red tape, you could choke a horse, for criminals to get away with anything., I think it's time we take the current system and replace it with something that works. The current system is obviously not working. With this track record, Osama Bin Laden will plead insanity and get away with it. Today is a day day for justice....

To those saying that she will spend the rest of her life in a hospital, realize that you tax dollars will be making sure she'd taken care of. Like Massoui, the one who was put on trial for 9/11, our hard earned tax dolalrs make sure criminals, like these, are living comfortably.

In the end, I don't think there is a true answer to this because everyone is going ot have their own opinions. Sure she will be locked up in a mental hospital for, what I guess will be, the rest of her life, but, to me, this is an example of a murderer getting off easy. There is too much red tape and loopholes for criminals to get away with just about anything. It is something that I don't think is addressed enough that our legal system needs to go under a review and changes need to be made. Trials take too long and cost too much money. The appeals process is a joke and just buys more and more time for them to figure out how to get away with things. This happened in 2001 and 6 years later, there is a resolution? Inmates sit on death row for years waiting for lawyers to find some small thing to throw the whole trial out. This is just my opinion and, I'm sure, it will differ from yours, but we need a more efficient Justice System...sooner rather than later.

Answer 1

i know a man serving a 60 year prison sentence for embezzling money from a small company of which he was half owner. if he had just killed his family instead, he'd be out a lot sooner. there's no real justice when a non-violent criminal whose offense mainly affected himself and a few other people and can be rectified is taking up prison space and costing taxpayer dollars while child killers and other violent criminals are set free. sure an institution is a better place for her than on the streets but it's got to be a lot easier than prison.

Answer 2

Your a f-ing retard. A) In this case, the Justice system couldn't have been more effective. What's more insane then some white trash ***** that drowns ALL FIVE of her boys. B) bin Laden is dead, and C) if he were alive, he wouldn't be able to "plead insanity" under our system because he wouldn't stand trial here. D) Hey Jack-off? I have a question for your dumb ***. What would a person of no U.S. Judicial knowledge like you, "replace the current system" with? Do you understand it's impossible to just wake up in the morning and "replace the current system". Jesus Christ, thank God you're not running our great nation. Oh yeah, and all that "red tape" is there because of the goddamn Democrats and all of those Satan worshiping lawyers.

Answer 3

She didn't get away with it. A mental hospital is just as much of a prison as any prison could be. Perhaps worse than any prison ever thought about being,

I do agree that justice was not done, in the first reports the doctor and his doctoring was in question for ignoring signs he should have noticed, as well as the husband who worked for NASA being involved. Two entities that have far more money and power than Andrea Yates has as a stay at home mother. There is a suspicion in my mind that the husband got away with the crime of setting the stage for murder to get rid of children that he would have to pay child support, and a wife that was getting in the way of him starting over.

I do not know any doctor that has not spoken to the husband if the wife is involved in any illness, the husband can say anything about the wife. It was said he also had contact the psychologist and behavior specialist with NASA. He had access to drugs there and could have asked his wifes doctor to give her more powerful drugs or a specific drug. I do know about what I speak about when I say the husband can say anything he chooses to say.

Answer 4

Andrea Yates will likely never walk free for the rest of her life. The trial was about deciding whether she belongs in a prison with no mental health treatment or in a hospital where she will be treated. She did not face the death penalty because a prosecution witness gave false testimony in the first trial.

She did not get away with the deaths of her children.

Answer 5

A Mother Gone Mad
"What Made Andrea Yates Snap?" Lots of people are asking this question after the tragic death of five children at the hands of their mother. In the throes of postpartum depression, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the bathtub, one after the other. The media explanation is that her drugs were unwisely discontinued, leading to psychotic behavior. Others blame lack of support, fatigue and overwork. But no one is mentioning nutrition. Andrea Yates had five children in quick succession, with little time to build up nutritional stores between pregnancies. Almost certainly she was on the standard American diet, lacking fat-soluble vitamins and long-chain fatty acids. Is she to blame? Or does blame rest with the whole medical establishment that has promoted industrial agriculture and soul-numbing lowfat diets all these years? Had she been treated with cod liver oil instead of antipsychotic drugs, this tragedy might have been avoided.

Answer 6

Everyone has forgotten about the rights of her children,What about that! And no she wont spend the rest of her sorry life in a mental hospital, Maybe 3-5 years if that. I say an eye for an eye! Do to her what she done to those innocent babies. I don't feel sorry for her. Whats the system coming to? I got an idea , put all the innocent people in jail and let the criminal's roam free and wreak havoc. GOD get a grip!!!!

Answer 7

Andrea Yates suffered from severe post-pardom depression, which I understand got worse with each child. Only those who have suffered extreme post-pardom depression have an inkling of what Andrea Yates was going through when she killed those precious children. Certainly not you, William.

It would be interesting to know just what some of you feel justice is. If anyone needs to be held accountable, it's Rusty Yates, who was advised of Andrea's mental problems after the FIRST child, and was advised NOT to take Andrea out of the mental treatment facility she was in shortly before she drowned her children.

But, that's what happens when women let men make their decisions for them. Andrea knew she couldn't mentally handle the children, because of the post-pardom problem, but Rusty Yates made the decisions, not Andrea.

Lethal injection isn't the answer to everything.

Answer 8

As a mother I believe that Yates is insane. There is no way I would ever hurt my children. If she is insane, at least she will get the help she needs, and more than likely be there for the rest of her life. If she is not insane, then her life is going to suck big time. Being in a mental hospital for a sane person in no fun I'm sure.

Answer 9

I don't see how an ordinary person can form an opinion on this when the average person does not understand the psychological aspects of the situation. We all put her down for her actions but do any of you comprehend the state of mind a person would have to be in to kill there very own children?? She was wrong and so is society as a whole for allowing situations like this to occur (from start to finish). She'll go to hell but we should take away her meds. and let her suffer until she does.

Answer 10

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