Let me make one thing clear right off the bat, because I'm sure there are some folk out there that will hit this one point first off when they disagree with what I'm about to say.
I'm not a woman, therefore I have no idea just how powerful a woman's hormones can be. But I have, however, lived with a woman through two pregnancies and then menopause, so yeah, I get it. I've seen what hormones can do to a woman first hand, so I get it about as much as any man can. But just to be on the safe side and to get a woman's opinion, I talked about the Lindsay Clancy case with my wife, and she gave me some first-hand insight on just how powerful a woman's hormones can be.
And I believe her, I really do. But there's still no reason in my mind that you can blame this woman's heinous act on hormones. What this bitch did was premeditated murder, plain and simple, and here's why.
First and foremost, she sent her husband out to run some bullshit errand to give her the opportunity to kill her kids. If that isn't the textbook definition of 'premeditation,' I don't know what is.
Second, death by strangulation is not the quick event as is depicted on TV and in the movies. While there is no set standard of time that it takes to kill someone by strangulation, on average it takes three to four minutes for death to occur. The victim can lose consciousness in less than a minute if the flow of blood to the brain is shut off, but death takes much longer than that. And if the victim doesn't lose consciousness, the pain and suffering they must endure for that three to four minutes is indescribable.
That's what she put all three of her kids through, by the way.
Third, she called her husband while he was out and told him not to hurry home.
Now, I don't give a rat's ass what kind of reasoning you can come up with, you are NOT - repeat, NOT - going to convince me that this woman killed her three kids in this brutal, horrific way while caught up in a rush of hormones. EVER. No, this was a planned, calculated act, nothing short of premeditated murder, and for the life of me I don't understand how ANY woman could possibly say it wasn't her fault because of 'hormones.'
In 1994 Susan Smith strapped her two kids into their child safety seats in her car and then drove the car into a lake, letting them drown. When she came to trial the sidewalk leading up to the courthouse was lined with woman screaming "Murderer!" and "Baby killer!" and demanding the death penalty. But when Clancy came to court, the sidewalks were lined with women supporting her and screaming for her release.
Is this how far our society has sunk? I'm afraid to say that yes, it is - at least on the liberal side of the population, that is. How ANY mother can support what Clancy did is beyond the scope of my comprehension.
It is my fervent hope that the state retries her on the murder charges, and this time I hope the attorney for the prosecution does a much better job of picking the jurors. I also hope that this time around she's convicted and sent to prison - not to a mental facility, but PRISON.
Do I think she was temporarily insane? NO, I don't, because of the obvious planning that she had to accomplish in order to carry out her crimes. She's as crazy as Susan Smith was, which is not crazy at all, and she deserves to spend the rest of her life in prison for what she did to those three poor children.
And when she dies, I hope she rots in hell.
