I think the question ofher being mentally ill is pretty much moot...of course she is. No-one in their right mind kills their children like that.
The big question is what to do with her. If we accept that she has a real illness,then she wasn't able to control her actions So the Death penalty serves no-one but those who are looking for "Revenge". For anyone outside the family to cry for 'revenge" is a bit suspect in itself. Life in prison;maybe..if there's treatment for her there,but more likely would result in her either being killed or completing her breakdown via suicide. Smacks of "revenge" again,doesn't it?
That leaves confinement to a medical hospital. Probably the best option IF the staff is competent. As you have read in my previous post I have doubts about that issue. Even if they "cure" her of this psycosis,there'll be the realization that she killed her own kids. That must be a terrible thing to realize...so what will that do to her mind??
However it goes this woman will never again be "free" in any real sense. I can't help but pity her too. I hope that if she really is insane that some day God will recieve her as a wounded soul and can forgive her and give her peace.
Incidentally..the problem I have with any death penalty is simply this. If I kill a man I believe threatens me or my family and it turns out it's the wrong man; I have MURDERED an innocent man and I am expected to pay the price. If the justice system executes a man and it is found out later he was innocent;it's just shrugged off and forgotten...even tho the system has done the same as me. Who pays the price for the innocent man there? Why is his life somehow less valuable than my victim?? So as participants in that system aren't we murderers too??
I just have this vision of standing before God and being asked.."Why did you kill one of the innocents??" And I will not even have the excuse of insanity.
The big question is what to do with her. If we accept that she has a real illness,then she wasn't able to control her actions So the Death penalty serves no-one but those who are looking for "Revenge". For anyone outside the family to cry for 'revenge" is a bit suspect in itself. Life in prison;maybe..if there's treatment for her there,but more likely would result in her either being killed or completing her breakdown via suicide. Smacks of "revenge" again,doesn't it?
That leaves confinement to a medical hospital. Probably the best option IF the staff is competent. As you have read in my previous post I have doubts about that issue. Even if they "cure" her of this psycosis,there'll be the realization that she killed her own kids. That must be a terrible thing to realize...so what will that do to her mind??
However it goes this woman will never again be "free" in any real sense. I can't help but pity her too. I hope that if she really is insane that some day God will recieve her as a wounded soul and can forgive her and give her peace.
Incidentally..the problem I have with any death penalty is simply this. If I kill a man I believe threatens me or my family and it turns out it's the wrong man; I have MURDERED an innocent man and I am expected to pay the price. If the justice system executes a man and it is found out later he was innocent;it's just shrugged off and forgotten...even tho the system has done the same as me. Who pays the price for the innocent man there? Why is his life somehow less valuable than my victim?? So as participants in that system aren't we murderers too??
I just have this vision of standing before God and being asked.."Why did you kill one of the innocents??" And I will not even have the excuse of insanity.