Originally posted by lady_zana
but Andrea Yates has severe depression. She had been in mental hospital various times and on several medicines that were not working as they should. She was a sick woman who doesn't deserve to be in prison but in a mental home where she can get some help.
And yet she kept having kids. Depression isn't an excuse to kill your babies one by one. People who are depressed still comprehend right from wrong. If I was "temporarily insane" when I killed my kids and then snapped back into reality to see what I had done, I wouldn't want to live. Why would someone who suffered from such severe post pardom(sp?) depression after the first couple of kids, in and out of mental hospitals and on serveral medications want to keep having kids? If she wasn't mentaly capable of caring for herself then she shouldn't have been allowed to continue having kids. No, she doesn't deserve to be put in prison, she deserves to be put under the prison. What kind of help could she get from a mental hospital that apparently didn't help her before she killed her kids?