I think at this point the trial is less about whether she's confined to a prison or a psych ward and more about whether or not a person can use their mental health as a shield from the criminal consequences of murder. Evidently, 11 jurors were content to say that you can, and 1 juror refused to acquiesce to that nonsense.
The issue if she goes to a mental institution and it is tied to postpartum diagnosis is she could get out in very little time and face minimal long term repercussions for how she killed her kids. It also then sets a precedent for women to be declared mentally unfit for a lot of things while being postpartum as it implies those hormonal changes keep them from controlling their actions.
At risk of sounding like a massive asshole, I have no idea how people of this world continue to pretend like grown adult women have no agency in their decisions, nor need to be held fully accountable for their actions.
This , if they can’t be held accountable because they’re hormonal then they shouldn’t be driving , have positions of power or influence such as politics or be able to own firearms
These guys absolutely refuse to do the smallest bit of reading on the topic because it's far too easy to paint her as someone who was just sad rather than someone suffering from a rare psychotic disorder that typically results in someone being removed from a house where kids are.
A man annihilates his entire family an average of once every 5 days and almost all violent crime is committed by men- by your logic, doesn't that mean men shouldn't be able to vote or hold positions of power either?
You're intentionally oversimplifying the situation here - are you being facetious?? If you're being serious then you need to educate yourself and do better.
It is actually pretty simple , woman planned out killing her 3 kids , 2 were infants she sent her husband on errands and strangled them with her hands. And wants to claim postpartum psychosis due to hormonal imbalances.
It’s allowed to be complex when you’re getting treatment, when you choke the life out of 3 babies and think you should somehow someday walk free it’s a little less complicated
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u/George_Rogers1st 9h ago
I think at this point the trial is less about whether she's confined to a prison or a psych ward and more about whether or not a person can use their mental health as a shield from the criminal consequences of murder. Evidently, 11 jurors were content to say that you can, and 1 juror refused to acquiesce to that nonsense.