[Mia]

Wow. These cases are so hard. I mean, you have to have some kind of mental disturbance to kill your own children, don't you? But I can't say in every case that they are legally 'insane'.

I understand why the fact that she killed all 5 had a bearing - it gave her plenty of time to realize what she was doing, but that doesn't interfere with whether she knew it was wrong.

I know that psychotropic meds are involved in many of these types of cases, I wonder if the subject of this article was on any.

I don't see the benifit of having these women in jail with minimal treatment and then releasing them. It's hard for me to say I want the death penalty for a person acting in a mental illness. So I suppose I agree with hospitalization.

I wonder if Mary Kay would have done better if she had gone to a hospital for treatment instead of to jail? I think that should have been the outcome for her as well.