INCREDIBLE!! texas child killer acquitted!!
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INCREDIBLE!! texas child killer acquitted!!
execution was too good for her. she is a cold-blooded butcher in my humble opinion. now all a woman has to do to get rid of her kids is say god told her to do it, brutally butcher them, and then spend a few months in a comfy hospital.
Jury Acquits Texas Mother Who Killed Sons
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Apr 3, 8:48 PM (ET)
By LISA FALKENBERG
(AP) Deanna Laney departs the 114th District Court following closing arguments in her capital murder...
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TYLER, Texas (AP) - A woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in the heads of her sons was acquitted of all charges by reason of insanity Saturday after a jury determined she did not know right from wrong during the killings.
A jury found that Deanna Laney was legally insane May 9 when she killed her two older sons, ages 6 and 8, in the front yard and left the youngest, now 2, maimed in his crib. Laney, 39, would have received an automatic life sentence had she been convicted of capital murder.
Laney broke into tears as the verdict was read. Her husband, Keith Laney, sat solemnly with his head down. A few jurors cried and struggled to maintain their composure.
State law allows Laney to be committed to a maximum security state hospital. Medical evaluations will dictate when she will be released.
(AP) Smith County District Attorney Matt Bingham delivers his closing arguments Saturday, April 3, 2004,...
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Jurors deliberated about seven hours before reaching their verdict in the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke, and the beating of Aaron.
Defense attorneys argued that insanity was the only reason why a deeply religious mother who homeschooled her children would kill two of them and maim another without so much as a tear.
"There was no crying," said Tonda Curry, one of Laney's lawyers. "She was insane. There is no other answer."
All five mental health experts consulted in the case, including two for the prosecution and one for the judge, concluded that a severe mental illness caused Laney to have psychotic delusions that rendered her incapable of knowing right from wrong during the killings - the standard in Texas for insanity.
Psychiatrists testified that Laney believed she was divinely chosen by God - just as Mary was chosen to bear Christ - to kill her children as a test of faith and then serve as a witness after the world ended.
In closing arguments earlier Saturday, prosecutors portrayed the killings last Mother's Day weekend as deceptively planned and coldly executed.
"It was graphic, it was horrific and it was brutal," prosecutor Matt Bingham told the jury.
Bingham pounded his fist in his hand as he recounted Joshua's killing: "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid."
Prosecutors portrayed the killings as deceptively planned and coldly executed. They said that even if Laney believed she was doing right by God, she had to have known she was doing wrong by state law. Her first call, they pointed out, was to 911 to summon authorities.
of course for all us christians out there, this makes us look rather silly. god had nothing to do with this, ms laney.
Jury Acquits Texas Mother Who Killed Sons
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Apr 3, 8:48 PM (ET)
By LISA FALKENBERG
(AP) Deanna Laney departs the 114th District Court following closing arguments in her capital murder...
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TYLER, Texas (AP) - A woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in the heads of her sons was acquitted of all charges by reason of insanity Saturday after a jury determined she did not know right from wrong during the killings.
A jury found that Deanna Laney was legally insane May 9 when she killed her two older sons, ages 6 and 8, in the front yard and left the youngest, now 2, maimed in his crib. Laney, 39, would have received an automatic life sentence had she been convicted of capital murder.
Laney broke into tears as the verdict was read. Her husband, Keith Laney, sat solemnly with his head down. A few jurors cried and struggled to maintain their composure.
State law allows Laney to be committed to a maximum security state hospital. Medical evaluations will dictate when she will be released.
(AP) Smith County District Attorney Matt Bingham delivers his closing arguments Saturday, April 3, 2004,...
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Jurors deliberated about seven hours before reaching their verdict in the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke, and the beating of Aaron.
Defense attorneys argued that insanity was the only reason why a deeply religious mother who homeschooled her children would kill two of them and maim another without so much as a tear.
"There was no crying," said Tonda Curry, one of Laney's lawyers. "She was insane. There is no other answer."
All five mental health experts consulted in the case, including two for the prosecution and one for the judge, concluded that a severe mental illness caused Laney to have psychotic delusions that rendered her incapable of knowing right from wrong during the killings - the standard in Texas for insanity.
Psychiatrists testified that Laney believed she was divinely chosen by God - just as Mary was chosen to bear Christ - to kill her children as a test of faith and then serve as a witness after the world ended.
In closing arguments earlier Saturday, prosecutors portrayed the killings last Mother's Day weekend as deceptively planned and coldly executed.
"It was graphic, it was horrific and it was brutal," prosecutor Matt Bingham told the jury.
Bingham pounded his fist in his hand as he recounted Joshua's killing: "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid."
Prosecutors portrayed the killings as deceptively planned and coldly executed. They said that even if Laney believed she was doing right by God, she had to have known she was doing wrong by state law. Her first call, they pointed out, was to 911 to summon authorities.
of course for all us christians out there, this makes us look rather silly. god had nothing to do with this, ms laney.
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I am so sick and tired of the mothers who kill their children and then make up some excuse. When a child isn't safe at home from his/her own mother, something is terribly wrong. They should be locked away forever. 

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Lindaloo wrote:Where is the ACLU on this one? They should say that there is no God therefore she is not insane.
great point Lin...
O'reilly had an opinion on this (no way you say...) which I liked. As it stands, if convicted and found innocent by reason of insanity, you are put in the mental hospital until you are considered "not crazy" anymore. Then. the possibility exists that you are free to walk the streets once again amongst the innocent. O'reilly says....why not make the punishment, the same in terms of length of "sentence". There would still be the "insanity plea", but you will rot away in an asylum instead of a prison if found innocent by reason of insanity.
I couldn't agree more. After all, there is nothing "innocent" about smashing your little children's heads open with boulders. Perhaps you are sick, but you are definitely NOT innocent. You did the crime!
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One difference between this case and others is that even the prosecution said that she was looney and that the only reason why the case was brought to trial was to let the citizens make the final decision. Lock her away for many years until the same doctors can be sure she is fine. Also, fire her doctor who didn diagnose this properly before this happened
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Derek Ortt wrote:Also, fire her doctor who didn diagnose this properly before this happened
AMEN! I'm sure this woman didn't just wake up one morning and decide it was such a nice Spring day out there,,,I think I'll kill my children and do the Lord's bidding.
I say there had to be some sort of warning signs, and assuming she was under some medical care, somebody out there needs to pay the price, like all of us do when we fail at our job.
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In my personal opinion, insanity should not be a plea in the first place. Perhaps the person has a mental problem. However, if that person commits a crime, he/she should be punished for that. Treat the illness, then let them serve prison time.
When I saw the report about this woman being found "not guilty due to insanity" it made my blood boil. Like I said above, perhaps she is "crazy" but that does not change the fact that two innocent lives were taken. She should be made to pay for that.
When I saw the report about this woman being found "not guilty due to insanity" it made my blood boil. Like I said above, perhaps she is "crazy" but that does not change the fact that two innocent lives were taken. She should be made to pay for that.
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