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Andrea Yates - Justice Served?

LeBuick

New Member
Magnetic Poles said:
The likelihood of her ever seeing the outside world again is somewhere between slim and none. However, this brings up the moral issue of is it right to execute the insane or retarded. A debate for another thread perhaps?

Yes, you just don't use as much current... JK :laugh:

Even slim to none means there is a possibility which I don't believe their should be. Also, she is still able to reproduce. I don't agree with executing the insane but I also don't want them to move next door in this llifetime...
 

Magnetic Poles

New Member
LeBuick said:
Even slim to none means there is a possibility ...
This reminded me of the lines from "Dumb and Dumber" . . .

Lloyd Christmas: What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me...ending up together?
Mary Swanson: Not good.
Lloyd Christmas
: You mean not good like one out of a hundred?
Mary Swanson: I'd say more like one in a million.
[a long sad pause]
Lloyd Christmas: So you're telling me there's a chance? Yeah! I read ya.
 

Jack Matthews

New Member
Revmitchell said:
The moment she is found no longer insane "legally" she will walk. No justice, no punishment, just excuses. The excuse is she is "legally insane. That my friend is excusing it.

Just from what I've read and seen, the standard for Andrea Yates to be declared "sane" is pretty high. I doubt she will ever be able to leave the assylum. I don't know whether that means justice has been served or not. I tend to think probably not, though life in an asylum is probably not any better than life in prison.
 

faithgirl46

Active Member
Site Supporter
Revmitchell said:
The moment she is found no longer insane "legally" she will walk. No justice, no punishment, just excuses. The excuse is she is "legally insane. That my friend is excusing it.
Yes it is. But unless she has Jesus as her Savior, and repents, she will answer to God.
Faithgirl
 

fromtheright

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I know what my gut tells me (hang her!) but I was not on the jury and did not see and hear all of the evidence presented to them.
 

Jack Matthews

New Member
faithgirl46 said:
Yes it is. But unless she has Jesus as her Savior, and repents, she will answer to God.
Faithgirl
It is my understanding, just from reading about this case, that Andrea Yates is a professing Christian and that she, her husband and family were actively engaged in a conservative, Bible preaching and teaching church that most people on this board would find acceptable.

Her own testimony is that she believes God told her to do what she did, to save her kids from Satan. Christians are not immune from mental illnesses or distortions caused by physical or psychological trauma or circumstances. They are recipients of God's saving grace through faith in Christ. Only Andrea Yates and God know the condition of her soul. Look how difficult a time we all have with what she did, and rightly so, yet, the fact is that if she had received the grace of God by having Jesus as her Lord and Savior, she is forgiven.
 
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