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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 443988" data-attributes="member: 57984">And we're discussing why.The psychiatric experts who interviewed her after the murders stated emphatically that she was not in psychosis. And even if she were, it would make no difference -- many men who have killed their families were diagnosed as psychotic, yet were convicted quickly and even fried.What's the difference? She's a woman.In the 19th century, there was a move to attempt to decriminalize infanticide because 90+ percent were committed by mothers, and all-male juries refused to convict a woman. So it was considered a waste of tax payer money... The Clancy case shows that female jurors are not any harder on a female defendant.</blockquote>