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Please explain to me again, why “Guilty, But Insane” doesn’t make sense, but “Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity” does…

Via CNN: Mom threw boys in bay, wrote to God:

A woman who claimed God ordered her to make a human sacrifice chose to kill her three children instead of herself, making her guilty of murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments at the woman’s trial.

Prosecutor Linda Allen asked jurors to use their heads, not hearts, to determine Lashuan Harris’ fate.

The mentally ill Oakland woman threw her children into San Francisco Bay last year but has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder by reason of insanity.

Defense attorney Teresa Caffese said Harris believed completely that she was sending her children — 6-year-old Trayshun Harris, 2-year-old Taronta Greeley, Jr., and 16-month-old Joshoa Greeley — to heaven when she threw them over a railing and into the bay’s cold waters.

If Harris believed her delusions were real, Caffese argued, she is innocent of murder.

She said her client was, by many accounts, a good mother and gentle person whose lifelong struggle with mental illness finally overwhelmed her.

The jury begins deliberations on Thursday.

Sane or insane, there is no question that she killed her children.

While Harris believes she heard God’s voice, it took a series of rational decisions to take her children from Oakland to the pier, undress the boys — one of whom struggled with her — hoist them over the railing and drop them into the water, [Prosecutor Linda] Allen said.

Before breaking out all of the legal logic about not being able to premeditate a crime if you are not able to understand your actions… just remember that the children have been sent to their death because of this woman. And it was no accident. Treat her in a mental hospital if that’s appropriate, but do not let her out into society just because she’s insane! If she becomes well enough to be discharged from mental health care, then return her for the balance of any sentance to prison. Period.