Deanna Laney Gets 90 More Days

(Tyler, Texas) Last Mother's Day, Deanna Laney, 39, murdered her sons, Joshua, 8, and Luke, 6, by stoning them to death. She was tried for the killings and acquitted by reason of insanity. Laney also was found innocent by reason of insanity in the wounding of another son, Aaron, who was 14 months old when she fractured his skull. After the trial, she was sent to a state hospital.

It now appears that Laney is much better, however, State District Judge Cynthia Stevens Kent thinks she ought to stay at the hospital for at least the next 90 days. At the end of 90 days, she may be required to stay a little longer or be released, free to go unpunished.

It should be obvious that the "by reason of insanity" acquittal is a license to murder. The laws should be changed to specify "guilty and insane."