both district attorney lynne abraham and assistant d.a.wed for this program. the d.a.'s office did issue this statement. marie noe, 79, is and will remain under court supervised probation until the year 2019. she served five years home confinement. she pled guilty to eight counts of murder. in connection with the deaths of her eight infant children. she has been fully compliant with the court's order to submit herself to evaluations by four different psychiatrists. these reports are confidential, in accordance with the pennsylvania rules of criminal procedure. dr. steven samuel was one of the psychiatrists who examined marie noe. he was told by the judge not to comment on this case, but he did say he evaluated marie for a total of some 70 hours. he said the last time he saw her was in 2003. dr. john o'brien, a court appointed forensic psychiatrist also examined marie and submitted to the court at least one report. other experts had access to this report, including dr. mark feldman. his main field of study is munchausen's disorder. >> i was

earlier probably hundreds of millions of their tax dollars that have been wasted first by the lynne abraham administration and now by this new d.a. in continuing to pursue death cases when they are simply not getting the people executed they're wasting their time and their money and their energy when that money and or g. could be better spent doing things that serve our society why is winning out there and who is responsible for keeping the system in place as it is if there are clearly evidence the evidence of so many flaws in it. i think mostly it's political cowardice i think if you look at the polls people now understand the death penalty and traps innocent people it's only used against the poor that it is hugely and improperly expensive and it's a riddled with the police and prosecutorial corruption so everybody understands it but the prosecutors are afraid to be labeled soft on crime which is what happens when the right wing sees somebody who begins to waver on the question they immediately begin to see people as being soft on crime and that can hurt a political career so where we are