| The overwhelming majority of these insanity pleas are really "I don't want to get punished for what I did" pleas. I think we need to eliminate, or at least vastly reduce the ability to be let off for being insane. It's getting so bad now that simply doing something wrong is "insane" because otherwise you wouldn't have done it.
Besides, do we really want crazy people running around? I'd much rather see the whacko loon who hacked up 27 people on death row than in treatment and getting out again someday. |