I just can't believe that Andrea Yates was acquited after receiving a second trail! I wonder if that would have been the case had her race been Black, and/ or if she had been male?
2006-07-27 15:12:02 · 16 answers · asked by The Idealist 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
O.J. didn't admit anything before trial or after, and it was never proven that he did anything. But that was not the situation with Yates. What jsutice did the slaughtered kids receive in this case? Were they vendicated?
2006-07-28 12:53:03 · update #1
even putting someone like this to death doesnt meet with a big enough punishment for the crime she commited....sometimes there is no punishment great enough....
2006-07-27 15:30:31 · answer #1 · answered by Aussieblonde -bundy'd 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Every expert at trial and her former husband, the father of the children, all agreed she was insane at the time. In the US we do not punish people for acts they could not control. For example, we do not put five year olds in jail if they shoot mommy with daddy's gun. Even if they intended to shoot the gun.
If Texas wants to get even more medieval than it is, it could abolish the insanity defense.
My thoughts are that if she had been black the case would have been resolved early on with a commitment to the state psychiatric hospital. The case was newsworthy only because she was such a poster-good southern values wife. Going to church, home-schooling the kids because the public schools were too "liberal", etc. This is why the right wing nuts froth at the mouth about this case, they don't want to admit that this lifestyle could have so stressed out this woman that she went psychotic.
2006-07-27 22:58:50 · answer #2 · answered by shoshidad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is my argument for a different type of jury than what we have today. I know the jury is tied to some of the guidelines they have to follow.
I think she should receive the death sentence because, no matter what she will be back out on the streets. And I am willing to bet it will be within ten years.
How can this be compared to O.J. ? I don't think race has anything to do with it.
2006-07-27 23:18:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OH PLEASE! What about O.J.? He's walking free after slaughtering two people and he's black and male. Where's the justice? At least she'll be put in a mental institution for the rest of her life. O.J. is enjoying a privledged lifestyle. ALL because he was black!
2006-07-27 22:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by jeanhall 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah...I don't think she met the criteria of being legally insane. Yes, she has mental problems...but she knew what she was doing...she held down the kids who fought..she called her husband afterwards...and I think she called 911??? And, she laid each kid on their bed...too much time went by.
If you ask me, her husband is not innocent in this....now he's remarried and having more kids...fantastic. He is a NASA engineer, and had a family of 6 living in a converted bus..or trailer, or something like that. And he knew his wife had severe depression, yet they continued to have kids....I think there is more to the story...
2006-07-27 22:17:07 · answer #5 · answered by loubean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The murderer should be put in a room with the kids parents and left alone for an hour.
2006-07-27 22:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diaboyos - I normally might agree with you, but in this case, the murderer WAS the parent. Andrea killed her five children.
2006-07-27 22:23:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe every murderer should be put to death in the same manner that they killed their victim/s. In the Yates case...drown her !
2006-07-27 22:18:52 · answer #8 · answered by madamspinner2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd help hold her head under the water in the bathtub like she did to her kids.
2006-07-27 22:24:12 · answer #9 · answered by therego2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not like she'll be free anytime soon. She would have got life in jail, now she gets life in a funny farm.
2006-07-27 22:15:47 · answer #10 · answered by takeashot30 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a sword, and an appetite for vengeance, so I could think of at least one suitable punishment.
2006-07-27 22:16:27 · answer #11 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋