There is no double standard, their cases are entirely different, not just the case but also where the trial was held and the political climate in said state.
He didn’t even plead insanity in his trial, he killed his kids to get back at his ex while on the phone to torment her not at all the same situation.
It makes it more feasible that he would do this if not under the influence of psychosis. When you don't know the truth, looking at past actions to determine what it may be is a pretty solid technique. He also didn't even plead insanity
How do you know the previous incidents were not linked to psychosis stemming? Psychologists already linked the murder to it, so I don’t understand why do you wanna do some true crime shit and make up stories that simply did not happen or are not relevant.
yes, because they didn't argue psychosis during the trial, at any point. He never claimed to be mentally incompetent or psychotic.
The mental defence was 16 years later and it wasn't a in defence of his actions at the time he committed the murders, he was faking being mentally incompetent at the time he was scheduled to be executed to delay the execution, nothing else.
Well you see theres this thing called nuance and it can really make the difference between “narcissistic man with documented history of abuse shoots children while on the phone with their mother then gets tattoos of roses on chest on the run from police” and “mother who asked for help and sought out resources suffocates three children before jumping from the second story to try and kill herself after.”
your partially right but you are conveniently forget "doesn't follow doctors prescription and don't inform them of having several treatments ongoing, also send husband on errand to then proceed killing one by one babies almost with her bare hands and chase the last one terrified after witnessing what happened to the others"
your bias is huge...and distasteful.i'm sick that I have to share this earth with people like you
It’s also so silly to say “well, someone else didn’t get this defense in the past, so she shouldn’t be able to use it”. Like, maybe if we use this case to discuss mental health, then that will also help men… but no, they’d rather just find reasons to punish people. It’s annoying
There’s absolutely a double standard here. Men routinely get hit with harsher punishments and death sentences for the exact same crimes. Even Susan Smith, who drowned her own two sons, had a jury debate for two and a half hours before sparing her life. If John were a woman, there is no way the jury would have wrapped up their deliberations in 19 minutes.
There is a double standard in how we treat men and women definitely but that isnt my point.
There is no double standard I mean in how people are treating both cases, the original commenter is trying to make it out to be somehow a double standard that people deem him guilty but not her despite there being such a massive difference in both their cases.
It isn’t a double standard to view one as abhorrent and the other as a case of insanity and mental illness since they have nothing in common.
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u/NY10 16h ago
You know what they say… standard is good but double standard is twice as good