Men can never be or experience personally what it is to be a woman. The connection they have with the preternatural is profound. Trust me I know. Demons and Angels are whispering all the time. It is only with True Catholic teaching and True Catholic Sacraments that you have the tools to learn how to discern spirits.
It is very sad what she did. I think that she needs to be accountable some how. I am not sure what is on the table. I haven't followed the story.
Oh, garbage. You're not animals. You have rational souls created by God. You are not forced to do anything on account of your hormones or emotions. I'm not sure what "demons and angels whispering" you imagine all around you. If you actually see them or think they're there, either 1) you're a mystic, in which case you're less likely to succuмb to suggestions to evil, or else 2) you do have some psycopathy.
There are psychiatric disorders that cause hallucinations, auditory and/or visual, but I doubt that's what you mean about demons and angels whispering to you all the time.
If you just mean the contant temptations to do evil, do you think that men are not also tempted to do evil?
So, yes, it's very said what she did, more sad for her victims, but sad for her also because she committed grave evil. YET she needs to be accountable for having made a free will decision to murder the children ... meaning capital punishment if it's available in her state. Giving her anything less than the ultimate penalty is to devalue the lives she took and to at least partially condone her actions, and send a clear message to other women that if they snap against their children they are not considered anything other than fully accountable.
Don't you see that in your approach you're gravely disrespecting women? Why is it that if a man had done this, there would be ZERO sympathy, and everyone to a person, especially the feminists defending this murderer ... would be demanding the death penalty for that wicked wicked man. But, for women, it's sympathy because "muh emotions" and "muh feewings". Bullcrap. She knew what she was doing, had free will, and deliberately murdered the children. Or are women just these animals who are not in any way responsible for their actions? Or is it only that they are responsible and to be credited when they do good, but not responsible nor blamed when they do evil? Both go together. If you can't be held responsible for the evil, then you are not to be praised for the good ... since both are just low-level animal instincts driven by emotion.
While sending her off to the chair (or whatever), we grieve for the sin she committed, as we do for her soul, and we pray for her conversion, and sincerely beg God to have mercy on her soul. But we do not excuse, condone, or minimize this in any way, shape or form. AND ... we have the same attitude about a man, had he committed the same crime, insist that he pay for this crimes, but also that God have mercy in his soul also.