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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/national/04TEXA.html

Mother Who Stoned 2 Sons to Death Acquitted on All Charges
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 4, 2004

YLER, Tex., March 3 ? A woman who claimed God ordered her to kill her sons was acquitted of murder charges by reason of insanity on Saturday, sparing her a life prison sentence and allowing the state to commit her to a psychiatric hospital.

A jury found that the woman, Deanna L. Laney, did not know right from wrong last May 9 when she killed her two older sons, 6-year-old Luke and 8-year-old Joshua, in her front yard by bashing their heads with rocks. She left her youngest son, Aaron, now 2, maimed in his crib.

Ms. Laney, 39, broke into tears as the verdict was read. Her husband, Keith Laney, sat solemnly with his head down. A few jurors cried.

State law allows Ms. Laney to be committed to a maximum security state hospital.

Her lawyers argued that insanity was the only reason why Ms. Laney, a deeply religious mother who home-schooled her children, would kill her sons without a tear.

"She was insane," Tonda Curry, one of her lawyers, said. "There is no other answer."

All five mental health experts consulted in the case concluded that a severe mental illness caused Ms. Laney to have psychotic delusions. Psychiatrists testified that Ms. Laney believed she was chosen by God to kill her children as a test of faith and then to serve as a witness after the world ended.

In closing arguments, prosecutors portrayed the killings as deceptively planned and coldly hahahahahahahad.

Prosecutors said that even if Ms. Laney believed she was doing right by God, she had to have known she was doing wrong by state law. Her first call, they pointed out, was to 911 to summon authorities.