Religions > Atheism > => God makes people Insane - Orders them to Murder Children ... Hallelujah ! <=
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"= Vox Populi ©" |
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03 Apr 2004 10:58:05 PM |
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=> God makes people Insane - Orders them to Murder Children ... Hallelujah ! <= |
Texas mom who stoned sons not guilty
TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in the heads of
her sons was acquitted Saturday of all charges after a jury determined she was
legally insane during the killings.
A jury found that Deanna Laney did not know right from wrong May 9 when she
killed her two older sons, ages 6 and 8, in the front yard and left the
youngest, now 2, maimed in his crib. Laney, 39, was found not guilty by reason
of insanity of charges of capital murder and serious injury to a child.
Laney broke into tears as the verdict was read. Her husband, Keith Laney, sat
emotionless. A few jurors cried and struggled to maintain their composure.
State law allows Laney to be committed to a maximum security state hospital.
Medical evaluations will dictate when she will be released.
In closing arguments earlier Saturday, prosecutors portrayed the killings last
Mother's Day weekend as deceptively planned and coldly executed.
"It was graphic, it was horrific and it was brutal," prosecutor Matt Bingham
told the jury.
Laney had faced life in prison for the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and
6-year-old Luke, and the beating of Aaron, now 2.
Bingham pounded his fist in his hand as he recounted Joshua's killing: "He got
strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were
coming out of his head like liquid."
Defense attorneys argued that insanity was the only reason why a deeply
religious mother who homeschooled her children would kill two of them and maim
another without so much as a tear.
All five mental health experts consulted in the case, including two for the
prosecution and one for the judge, concluded that a severe mental illness caused
Laney to have psychotic delusions that rendered her incapable of knowing right
from wrong during the killings -- the standard in Texas for insanity.
Psychiatrists testified that Laney believed she was divinely chosen by God --
just as Mary was chosen to bear Christ -- to kill her children as a test of
faith and then serve as a witness after the world ended.
Prosecutors portrayed the killings as deceptively planned and coldly executed.
They said that even if Laney believed she was doing right by God, she had to
have known she was doing wrong by state law. Her first call, they pointed out,
was to 911 to summon authorities.
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| User: "Daniel T." |
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| Title: Re: => God makes people Insane - Orders them to Murder Children ... Hallelujah ! <= |
04 Apr 2004 07:32:39 PM |
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Daniel Kolle <DKolle@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:58:05 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
thought hard and said:
State law allows Laney to be committed to a maximum security state hospital.
Medical evaluations will dictate when she will be released.
Why do I get the feeling that she will be "a-okay" in about... two
years?
If people are put in jail because they are dangerious to society, then
she should not be put in jail (she is only dangerios to her own
children, not anyone else) however she should be forced to have her
tubes tied or something.
If people are put in jail to convince them not to do it again, then she
should not be put in jail. She doesn't have any more children to kill.
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| User: "SMChristenson" |
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| Title: Re: => God makes people Insane - Orders them to Murder Children ... Hallelujah ! <= |
04 Apr 2004 07:53:03 PM |
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On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 00:32:39 +0000, Daniel T. wrote:
Daniel Kolle <DKolle@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:58:05 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
thought hard and said:
State law allows Laney to be committed to a maximum security state
hospital. Medical evaluations will dictate when she will be released.
Why do I get the feeling that she will be "a-okay" in about... two
years?
If people are put in jail because they are dangerious to society, then
she should not be put in jail (she is only dangerios to her own
children, not anyone else) however she should be forced to have her
tubes tied or something.
If people are put in jail to convince them not to do it again, then she
should not be put in jail. She doesn't have any more children to kill.
I wouldn't be so sure she might not get subsequent messages telling her
which head needs a brick.
Tubes tied wouldn't be a bad negotiation. If she got pregnant at the
hospital would it be a miracle, or an orderly named Joe?
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: => God makes people Insane - Orders them to Murder Children ... Hallelujah ! <= |
04 Apr 2004 12:24:13 PM |
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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:58:05 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
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Texas mom who stoned sons not guilty
It's time to ban stones. Apparently second hand stones
can kill people.
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: => God makes people Insane - Orders them to Murder Children ... Hallelujah ! <= |
04 Apr 2004 01:14:41 PM |
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<stanlee_98@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f7i0705su77iu2dh7ajkc3e0oubsvqceos@4ax.com...
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:58:05 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
Texas mom who stoned sons not guilty
It's time to ban stones. Apparently second hand stones
can kill people.
They've already done that in Austrailia !!
http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/columns/rocks.htm
:)
--
Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: => God makes people Insane - Orders them to Murder Children ... Hallelujah ! <= |
04 Apr 2004 09:03:31 PM |
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On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:14:41 +0100, "Jez"
<iced_spear@AwaySPAMdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
<stanlee_98@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f7i0705su77iu2dh7ajkc3e0oubsvqceos@4ax.com...
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:58:05 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
Texas mom who stoned sons not guilty
It's time to ban stones. Apparently second hand stones
can kill people.
They've already done that in Austrailia !!
http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/columns/rocks.htm
No kidding, they have really done it.
I wonder why they banned bullet proof wests.
How do you hurt people with those?
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| User: "IANAL" |
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| Title: Re: => God makes people Insane - Orders them to Murder Children ... Hallelujah ! <= |
05 Apr 2004 05:30:59 AM |
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On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 02:03:31 GMT, wrote:
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:14:41 +0100, "Jez"
<iced_spear@AwaySPAMdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
< > wrote in message
news:f7i0705su77iu2dh7ajkc3e0oubsvqceos@4ax.com...
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:58:05 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
Texas mom who stoned sons not guilty
It's time to ban stones. Apparently second hand stones
can kill people.
They've already done that in Austrailia !!
http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/columns/rocks.htm
No kidding, they have really done it.
I wonder why they banned bullet proof wests.
How do you hurt people with those?
The article in the Herald Sun looks rather jokey to me, as if they are
deliberately misrepresenting an (albeit silly) actual law.
[Followup set: restore if you wish]
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