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krwlz, there is a huge difference between a psychopath and someone experiencing a psychotic break. Ted Bundy was a psychopath who believed himself superior to societies notions of right or wrong.
Yates was alledgedly psychotic at the time that she killed her children. An "expert" psychiatric witness claimed that she got the idea from watching a program of a similar plot on television. How could the jury not be influenced by that statement? It was only discovered later that no program of that kind was ever aired.
I agree that there should be a punishment for what she did, but it certainly isn't first degree murder. I think you will agree, if you read up on her mental history prior to the death's of her children.
Requiring a retrial was a just decision, and I would still like to see her husband charged for psychological abuse and neglect.
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