Poet's Corner

[Bird of Prey]

Should Mrs. Yates get the Death Penalty?


This is not a question to be taken lightly. Yet many have already decided that she shouldn't have even been found guilty of Capitol Murder. Why? Because she is mentally ill, she shouldn't be held accountable for her actions.
Pardon me, but that is the most ludicrous poppycock I have ever heard. Using that standard John Wayne Gacey, Jeffery Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Henry Lee Lucas, Otis Thorpe, Ed Gein, Albert Fish and a host of other killers, pedophiles and rapists would have been freed to inflict unmentionable horror on other unsuspecting families.
That some kind of mental disorder exists or existed in all of the above named individuals is a given. No sane person commits mass murder. But mass murderers do know what they do is wrong. They go to great lengths to conceal their activities.
Mrs. Yates is a mass murderer. She coldly calculated and executed the systematic murder of five individuals...one at a time. She has actively participated in a scheme to absolve her of responsibility for her crimes.
Luckily the jury did not fall for her game. Let's hope that they continue to follow the law and not be swayed by the "popular" appeal for "sympathy" to her "condition".
Let Justice prevail for her victims. Sentence her to death.


The Bird of Prey