Could probably hear the “FOH!!” from space

[u/MGLLN]

[u/Luis0224]

"She went 40 years without murdering someone, why should 3 murders in a single day ruin her life"

The jurors were brain dead

Edit - i know what the argument for not guilty was. I'm saying if this was any other combination of gender/race/ethnicity, this would've been a slam dunk for the prosecution. Male? Guilty. Black/latino/asian/middle Eastern woman? Guilty.

The only reason this wasn't an open and shut case was because she was a white woman. This lady had access to therapy, was well supported financially, had a nanny, and was in a much better position to get the help she needed than a majority of people in America. There's no excuse for murdering 3 children, full stop.

[u/johnnylovelace → u/Luis0224]

The right wing media campaign that this was somehow about her doing life or going free is maddening. “not guilty by reason of insanity” is not an acquittal, she will spend the rest of her life in a state institution the question is just prison or mental institution. Nobody ever said “murdering your kids shouldn’t ruin your life” and pretending like they did is part of a fascist campaign to cast women as unworthy of political rights

[u/bot2317 → u/johnnylovelace]

“She will spend the rest of her life in a state institution”

That is not guaranteed no matter how many times yall say it

[u/Furrycontainmentalt → u/bot2317]

Exactly, you can hack a sleeping man’s head off with a machete on a greyhound bus before eating the corpse in front of the other passengers and you can get out in under 5 years. With a name change as a bonus so long as you pinky promise the review board (who are incentivized to prove their system works to rehabilitate) that you’ll take your pills every day.

[u/nowyouseemenowyoudo2 → u/Furrycontainmentalt]

With a temporary condition like she’s claimed, as long as she isn’t pregnant again, she could be out in 6 months.