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if we all agree that this woman was insane when she committed this crime what do we gain from punishing her? If she is *still* insane (which seems likely as one would think that level of insanity would be very difficult to recover from) and thus still a danger to society then clearly she should not be allowed to be unsupervised in society. But i do not see how killing her or putting her in prison for life is likely to improve the situation for anyone.
additionally this is how our legal system works -- people are allowed to appeal cases in an effort to find balance in the system. the;re not letting her back out on the street the're granting her a new trial. If we remove this level of appeal we risk allowing wrongly convicted individuals to be unnecessarily punished.
and Mal: i completely agree that her husband should not go blameless. he's claiming to be sane and yet he left his children with a women who was clearly mentally compromised.
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