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Originally Posted by Lasereth
I appreciate the cleverness, but I just don't get how anyone can see this with the mental disability view. Someone in the thread has already mentioned when we stopped punishing killers and started giving them free doctor visits. When will killers pay for what they did? Is it OK to kill in the US as long as you weren't entirely sane when you did it? Where is the line between a killer who deserves punishment and a killer who deserves to be treated as "mental victim?"
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I suspect that's for medical professionals to decide. I may not have my doctorate in psych yet, but I can guess as to the mental state of the horrible man who committed this crime. He's nuts. I don't mean like cheating husband kills cheating wife kind of nuts, I mean praying to a bedpost and eating concrete because your deoderant told you to do it nuts. What this man did could not be done by a sane man.
It's never okay to kill, and
I am not suggesting that this man ever be free again, but to kill an insane individual for doing something insane doesn't makes sense to me. Punish him, of course. Kill him? No way.
I am fine with the 'agree to disagree' thing in this case. It's not like we're on the jury. If we were, then we'd have to come to some sort of an agreement.