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If the penal system were really there for rehabilitation, then not guilty by reason of insanity would make sense. If it were there for punishment, then it would make sense. It seems to me though that the penal system is largely there to remove from society its dangerous members (as defined by old white guys). If that is really what the penal system is about, the insanity should be no defense. Knowing right from wrong does not make you more dangerous - rather the opposite.
If God told her to do it, and she did, and she told people she did, then she should answer to God, not us, and we should arrange that meeting expeditiously, if you take my meaning. I am against the death penalty when there is any possibilty of error, but that does not seem to be the case here.
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