If this is some kind of excuse for what this sadistic woman did to her daughter, the horrific systematical  torture that ended her young life, it falls short. McAnulty was not abused to the point of death, nor were her siblings. There is no comparison. I've been a staunch advocate against the death penalty for many decades. I've stood up in protest for child killers, rapists who've killed,  and people who've murdered multiple individuals, all who were sentenced to death, but I wouldn't protest the execution of this woman. God forgive me, but it's how I feel. To take a life in an instant entails very little time for one's humanity to be struck with mercy. To torture and relentlessly inflict unspeakable pain over years is different.  Her only motive was to inflict unbearable suffering and a slow merciless death on her own child.  I feel McAnulty is completely void of humanity, she's an empty vessel of evil, beyond redemption. I wouldn't fight to save that.

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