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A mother who strangled her three young children should not escape full accountability because the court decided her mental state mattered more than their lives. Postpartum hardship is real, but it does not cancel out the deliberate act of ending three innocent lives in their own home.One juror starting at guilty and then flipping after group pressure only confirms how easily sympathy can drown out the evidence of what actually happened. Deliberations that turn into shouting matches over diagnoses instead of the bodies of those children are a failure of justice, not a triumph of compassion.When the death of babies is recast as a medical episode rather than a crime, the system tells every parent that the worst possible act can be explained away. Those children deserved a verdict that treated their deaths as the horror they were.