Plea deals often suck

[Zeus]

The reason for the murders is what makes me look at the victims and whether they are adults or children. In this case, there was no rational reason for her to kill the other children. There is even a semi-rational reason to kill the mother if the goal was to get the fetus and call the baby her own. Going after the other children and methodically killing them makes no sense and is what tells me she is not sane. It may appear to be emotional, but it is not. Motive is a very rational process...albeit frequently not moral. This case does not seem to have the earmarks of a rational or sane person.

Bloodlust. Maybe after the first murder she realized what she had done and was inescapably wraught with the situation and her coocoo breaker tripped ??

[MrsSmith]

I won't get into the repenting part of it...but honestly, just thinking about the horror of those crimes wreaks havoc on my own brain. I can't imagine having committed any of them.

Yeah. I've only watched one person die. To watch several people die, by my hand, especially children...the stuff of nightmares. But the most insane among us enjoy the "power" given them by the murder of the innocent. Also the stuff of nightmares.

[AlmostThere]

She's not going to get a chance to kill anyone else. With an IQ of 70, it's highly unlikely that she will be able to escape from prison, and with that IQ of 70, she's probably not going to be a real difficult inmate once she gets the routine down.

Yet again, the fact that the crimes ocurred in separate instances-killing the mother and baby, then killing the other kids. There's something about that that says "crazy", but also that tells me that perhaps the 70 IQ is a lawyer's attempt to gain sympathy for the poor, crazy, retarded woman. A good daily dose of Depakote should keep her from ever causing too much trouble.

With a declared IQ of 70 I think her likelihood of escape increases dramatically with every assessment some psychologist makes. When she makes her break she'll have a bunch of guys in black robes holding the doors open and carrying her bags. While she's waving goodbye, they'll apologize to her for the inconvenience.