Re: 'Wish were dead': Article on the McCarron Mu

[Guest guest]

The funny part about these insanity pleas is that most people that

murder are not in their right mind. The only people I can think of

that do are the accedental killings, but normally these people arnt in

their right mind after it happens(like say a man in the area was

cleaning his rifle before hunting season, gun went off and shot his

young child who was standing nearby, no point in putting him in

prison, he has his own demons to deal with that are far worse then any

punishment anyone else could give him).

The idea that people can excuse crimes like these because of mental

state is beyond me.

[Guest guest]

> So while I don't believe she killed the little girl in a moment of

> insanity, she may have had a progressive and intense insanity for

> quite a while.

Under the law, insanity doesn't mean mental illness. It means being

unable to distinguish right and wrong.

If she were unable to distinguish right and wrong, she would not have

immediately hidden the evidence and pretended that her daughter had

just randomly stopped breathing, gone through the pretense of CPR long

after she was dead (and while knowing she was dead) and so forth in

order to cover up what had happened, nor would she have repeatedly

said she did something wrong, etc.