Andrea Yates hospitalized after refusing to eat

Remember Andrea Yates? She’s the woman who drowned her children in a bathtub 3 years ago. She was convicted and sentenced to life behind bars. According to this MSNBC article she ‘wants to put an end to this,’ her lawyer says.

Wow, that’s a shocker. She murdered her children and now she’s unwilling to live with what she did? I guess that tosses the whole insanity thing. If she was truly legally insane she wouldn’t be feeling guilty or troubled by what she did. Would she?

It was very disturbing to hear how someone could do this, to their own children especially. I know I ‘wanted’ her to be found insane. No one in their right mind could perform an act like that. Could they? Apparently that’s not the case at all. People are found guilty of horrific crimes every day. It’s sad what we’re capable of doing to one another.

I remember the uproar when Yates didn’t get the death penalty. Some folks were outraged. Being anti-death penalty myself I was glad that there was a life sentence. I think death is too easy for some of these people. Especially child killers. Having to live a long life knowing what you did is true punishment.

Hey Andrea (like she’ll ever read this) if you feel bad about what you did it’s because you did a bad thing. That awful nagging guilt is called a conscience. Killing yourself is the ultimate in avoiding responsibility for the acts you performed and would be the final injustice. How does suicide improve the situation for anyone but yourself? No one else needs to die here. Take your punishment…