While I completely agree with you on the sad state of the mental
health "industry," I also feel the need to disagree with you on this
one. It's amazing to me how poorly understood mental illness is and
what prejudices people have against the mentally ill. I watched my
partner go from normal person to raging psychotic, threatening to kill
someone and telling me how god made him telepathic and he was a
prophet and what not. He wasn't a violent person before, but he became
rather frightening.
I'm quite convinced that Yates was delusional when she killed her
kids. And, I'm quite convinced that she believed she was doing the
right thing. Now, is she dangerous? Hell yah. But, should she be made
to suffer? My guess is that the worst suffering for is when she's
lucid and knows what she did. Slipping back into psychosis is probably
her greatest relief. So, if you really want to make her suffer,
support the idea of her getting appropriate treatment.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:58:13 -0500, Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We will just have to disagree.
>
> Part of the reason is because in Texas, that after 3 or 5 years, I forget which,
> the court of original jurisdiction no longer has jurisdiction, and the mental
> institutions (including the doctors) have a pretty bad record of medicating
> these people up the kazoo and then declaring them ok, and then they are released
> back into society to do further harm should they stop taking the meds.
> Therefore they cannot be tried after release. The Defense Lawyers know that
> very well too.
>
> Therefore is a plea of insanity is held, society risks having the person
> released within 5 years. Remember Texas used to execute these people just like
> anyone else, but the Supreme Court recently stopped that.
>
> Every Major City in Texas has homeless on the streets that are former mental
> institution inmates and have been released, but no longer take their meds.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Larry C. Lyons
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Let her starve
>
> Cannot agree with you on this one. She's a psychiatric case and should
> be treated as such. Texas has an almost impossiblly high standard of
> legal insanity. From what one psychologist I know has characterized it
> as if when asked if today was Sunday (when it wasn't) and you said no,
> then you could be judged legally sane.
>
> What happened was tragic, why compound the tragedy by further
> torturing the poor woman.
>
> larry
>
>
>
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