Jury Acquits Texas Mother in Stoning Deaths

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Summary: Hits ordered up by God are ok, as long as you're crazy.

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TYLER, Texas (April 3) - A housewife who said God told her to bash her sons' skulls with rocks was acquitted Saturday of capital murder and serious injury to a child after a jury determined she was legally insane during the killings.

A jury of eight men and four women deliberated for about seven hours before determining that Deanna Laney, 39, did not know right from wrong last Mother's Day weekend when she killed 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke in the front yard and left Aaron, now 2, maimed in his crib.

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 five days of graphic, emotional testimony, prosecutors portrayed the May 9 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.

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.

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We had a woman in Naperville kill her 3 kids, she was crazy for sure but got life in the big house anyway! Too bad this woman didn't get the same.

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just becouse man didnt find her quilty, that dont mean shes clear with the man upstairs. we all will stand before him for our sins, and she has that to look foward 2

[JR]

Originally posted by brand0n@Apr 3 2004, 08:22 PM
just becouse man didnt find her quilty, that dont mean shes clear with the man upstairs. we all will stand before him for our sins, and she has that to look foward 2
if she is truly insane... then wasn't this all the will of God?

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Originally posted by JR+Apr 3 2004, 09:44 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JR @ Apr 3 2004, 09:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--brand0n@Apr 3 2004, 08:22 PM
just becouse man didnt find her quilty, that dont mean shes clear with the man upstairs. we all will stand before him for our sins, and she has that to look foward 2
if she is truly insane... then wasn't this all the will of God?[/b][/quote]
yep.

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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

Lookie here, folks ... when the prosecution can't even find expert prostitutes to testify to the fact that she was sane, then it's pretty likely that she was, as they say, incapbable of right from wrong.

It's a damn shame ... but no good would have been accomplished by putting her into the penal system.

[JR]

are you people calling Christians crazy?

[Almighty Colin]

I've never heard of the "did not know right from wrong" defense. I could apply that to most everything I'vv done the past 10 years.

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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Apr 4 2004, 12:52 AM
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

Lookie here, folks ... when the prosecution can't even find expert prostitutes to testify to the fact that she was sane, then it's pretty likely that she was, as they say, incapbable of right from wrong.

It's a damn shame ... but no good would have been accomplished by putting her into the penal system.
I agree, sick people should get a cure, not capital punishment, like they did in Nazi Germany

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Originally posted by JR@Apr 4 2004, 01:07 AM
are you people calling Christians crazy?
will Jewish God protect me if I do?
;_))))

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Originally posted by Serge_Oprano+Apr 4 2004, 05:04 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Serge_Oprano @ Apr 4 2004, 05:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--PornoDoggy@Apr 4 2004, 12:52 AM
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

Lookie here, folks ... when the prosecution can't even find expert prostitutes to testify to the fact that she was sane, then it's pretty likely that she was, as they say, incapbable of right from wrong.

It's a damn shame ... but no good would have been accomplished by putting her into the penal system.
I agree, sick people should get a cure, not capital punishment, like they did in Nazi Germany[/b][/quote]
depends on the sickness. if that sickness results in murder, all the better to just put the offending sick puppy to sleep. then there's never a chance they'll do something crazy again as the result of their affiliction.

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Originally posted by pushpills+Apr 4 2004, 06:10 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (pushpills @ Apr 4 2004, 06:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by -Serge_Oprano@Apr 4 2004, 05:04 AM
<!--QuoteBegin--PornoDoggy@Apr 4 2004, 12:52 AM
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

Lookie here, folks ... when the prosecution can't even find expert prostitutes to testify to the fact that she was sane, then it's pretty likely that she was, as they say, incapbable of right from wrong.

It's a damn shame ... but no good would have been accomplished by putting her into the penal system.
I agree, sick people should get a cure, not capital punishment, like they did in Nazi Germany
depends on the sickness. if that sickness results in murder, all the better to just put the offending sick puppy to sleep. then there's never a chance they'll do something crazy again as the result of their affiliction.[/b][/quote]
true to the extent, but....
if we are dare calling ourselves as CIVILIZED SOCIETY,
we should take care of our sick ones.

Otherwise.....do you know that influenza would be much easier to combat if we just kill the first sick ones?

would you go for it?

being mentally sick and getting a cold virus is NOT the patient's fault

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Originally posted by Serge_Oprano+Apr 4 2004, 05:18 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Serge_Oprano @ Apr 4 2004, 05:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by -pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 06:10 AM
Originally posted by -Serge_Oprano@Apr 4 2004, 05:04 AM
<!--QuoteBegin--PornoDoggy@Apr 4 2004, 12:52 AM
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

Lookie here, folks ... when the prosecution can't even find expert prostitutes to testify to the fact that she was sane, then it's pretty likely that she was, as they say, incapbable of right from wrong.

It's a damn shame ... but no good would have been accomplished by putting her into the penal system.
I agree, sick people should get a cure, not capital punishment, like they did in Nazi Germany
depends on the sickness. if that sickness results in murder, all the better to just put the offending sick puppy to sleep. then there's never a chance they'll do something crazy again as the result of their affiliction.
true to the extent, but....
if we are dare calling ourselves as CIVILIZED SOCIETY,
we should take care of our sick ones.

Otherwise.....do you know that influenza would be much easier to combat if we just kill the first sick ones?

would you go for it?

being mentally sick and getting a cold virus is NOT the patient's fault[/b][/quote]
Influenza patients don't bash their kids brains in with rocks (as far as I know, I'm NOT a doctor).


Sure enough though, it is a bit "uncivilized" to not treat the mentally ill, but when that illness causes the death of someone else, it should be lights out and I think that would make us a TRUELY civilized society.

In my brand of law, kill and be killed.


*This message is endorsed by the national republican society.

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Originally posted by pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 06:32 AM

Influenza patients don't bash their kids brains in with rocks (as far as I know, I'm NOT a doctor).


great, I'll educate you to be as smart as one
;-))

Influenza killed more people than all mental patients and WW1 combined:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/

"The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster"

if you wanna live by your own laws,
PLEASE, make a living will, name me an administer and list influenza as one of the reasons to stop your life.

I'll do it...FREE!
;-)))

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Originally posted by Serge_Oprano+Apr 4 2004, 05:39 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Serge_Oprano @ Apr 4 2004, 05:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 06:32 AM

Influenza patients don't bash their kids brains in with rocks (as far as I know, I'm NOT a doctor).


great, I'll educate you to be as smart as one
;-))

Influenza killed more people than all mental patients and WW1 combined:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/

"The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster"

if you wanna live by your own laws,
PLEASE, make a living will, name me an administer and list influenza as one of the reasons to stop your life.

I'll do it...FREE!
;-)))[/b][/quote]
Well we're talking about 1918, and in that day YEA maybe it would have been a good idea to start killing off the people spreading the disease! :awinky:



If I do get influenza, OR if I go mental and bash some kids brains in with rocks, you may indeed stop my life pro bono. I'll arrange for the paperwork.


I still believe, in most cases, kill and be killed is appropriate. Everything has exceptions, but in our modern civilized society, we make too many of them. That rapist in my neighborhood is gonna see way more time than this lady! He never killed ANYONE, he just gave them what he thought they would have wanted. :matey:

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Originally posted by pushpills+Apr 4 2004, 07:03 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (pushpills @ Apr 4 2004, 07:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by -Serge_Oprano@Apr 4 2004, 05:39 AM
<!--QuoteBegin--pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 06:32 AM

Influenza patients don't bash their kids brains in with rocks (as far as I know, I'm NOT a doctor).


great, I'll educate you to be as smart as one
;-))

Influenza killed more people than all mental patients and WW1 combined:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/

"The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster"

if you wanna live by your own laws,
PLEASE, make a living will, name me an administer and list influenza as one of the reasons to stop your life.

I'll do it...FREE!
;-)))
Well we're talking about 1918, and in that day YEA maybe it would have been a good idea to start killing off the people spreading the disease! :awinky:



If I do get influenza, OR if I go mental and bash some kids brains in with rocks, you may indeed stop my life pro bono. I'll arrange for the paperwork.


I still believe, in most cases, kill and be killed is appropriate. Everything has exceptions, but in our modern civilized society, we make too many of them. That rapist in my neighborhood is gonna see way more time than this lady! He never killed ANYONE, he just gave them what he thought they would have wanted. :matey:[/b][/quote]
hmmm..pro bona killings....
I don't think it will sit well with my Jewish heritage,
I have to withdraw my offer...

will you prepay me at least $1000 for air tix?

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Originally posted by Serge_Oprano+Apr 4 2004, 06:13 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Serge_Oprano @ Apr 4 2004, 06:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by -pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 07:03 AM
Originally posted by -Serge_Oprano@Apr 4 2004, 05:39 AM
<!--QuoteBegin--pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 06:32 AM

Influenza patients don't bash their kids brains in with rocks (as far as I know, I'm NOT a doctor).


great, I'll educate you to be as smart as one
;-))

Influenza killed more people than all mental patients and WW1 combined:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/

"The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster"

if you wanna live by your own laws,
PLEASE, make a living will, name me an administer and list influenza as one of the reasons to stop your life.

I'll do it...FREE!
;-)))
Well we're talking about 1918, and in that day YEA maybe it would have been a good idea to start killing off the people spreading the disease! :awinky:



If I do get influenza, OR if I go mental and bash some kids brains in with rocks, you may indeed stop my life pro bono. I'll arrange for the paperwork.


I still believe, in most cases, kill and be killed is appropriate. Everything has exceptions, but in our modern civilized society, we make too many of them. That rapist in my neighborhood is gonna see way more time than this lady! He never killed ANYONE, he just gave them what he thought they would have wanted. :matey:
hmmm..pro bona killings....
I don't think it will sit well with my Jewish heritage,
I have to withdraw my offer...

will you prepay me at least $1000 for air tix?[/b][/quote]
I knew you'd chicken out, who will end my inevitable influenvza fueled mentally challenged god requested killing spree?


P.S. I want my one on one poker, one bottle of good wine from me vs. something creative from you.

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Originally posted by pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 07:03 AM
That rapist in my neighborhood is gonna see way more time than this lady! He never killed ANYONE, he just gave them what he thought they would have wanted. :matey:
You really are stupid, aren't you?

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Originally posted by pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 07:20 AM


P.S. I want my one on one poker, one bottle of good wine from me vs. something creative from you.
now we are talking
;-))

How about I bet you Hard Copy of DaVinci code with my photos of the Temple Church where some of the book took place?

or...the bottle of Cassiopea, the red wine we call "smooth as mother's milk"?

whatta you say?

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Originally posted by PornoDoggy+Apr 4 2004, 07:23 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (PornoDoggy @ Apr 4 2004, 07:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 07:03 AM
That rapist in my neighborhood is gonna see way more time than this lady! He never killed ANYONE, he just gave them what he thought they would have wanted. :matey:
You really are stupid, aren't you?[/b][/quote]
negative,

it's a sarcastic twist on an otherwise depressing subject.

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Originally posted by Serge_Oprano+Apr 4 2004, 07:29 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Serge_Oprano @ Apr 4 2004, 07:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 07:20 AM


P.S. I want my one on one poker, one bottle of good wine from me vs. something creative from you.
now we are talking
;-))

How about I bet you Hard Copy of DaVinci code with my photos of the Temple Church where some of the book took place?

or...the bottle of Cassiopea, the red wine we call "smooth as mother's milk"?

whatta you say?[/b][/quote]
Sure, but you must inscribe the book without using the words fuck or bastard.


What kind of wine do you want for your win?

Any sites Cassiopeia is for sale on?

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Originally posted by pushpills+Apr 4 2004, 08:31 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (pushpills @ Apr 4 2004, 08:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by -PornoDoggy@Apr 4 2004, 07:23 AM
<!--QuoteBegin--pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 07:03 AM
That rapist in my neighborhood is gonna see way more time than this lady! He never killed ANYONE, he just gave them what he thought they would have wanted. :matey:
You really are stupid, aren't you?
negative,

it's a sarcastic twist on an otherwise depressing subject.[/b][/quote]
Ohhh. That's sarcasm.

See, I didn't get that. I didn't get it because I figured anyone more than a couple of years into puberty would know that there is NO relationship between rape and sex, particularly for the victims.

Sorry ... I might be better able to understand your brilliance and wit better in June, after my grandson spends a couple of weeks.

He is 11, btw.

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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Apr 4 2004, 07:52 AM
I didn't get it because I figured anyone more than a couple of years into puberty would know that there is NO relationship between rape and sex, particularly for the victims.

I retract my previous statement, I AM stupid, I don't know what your point is.


I'm going to go spend a couple of weeks.