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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (15093)6/20/2002 3:05:44 PM
From: Original Mad Dog  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
The mentally ill who prevail on the insanity defense are often detained in facilities that are hybrids of medical/psychiatric facilities and prisons. In prisons, I think Jesse Jackson once quite colorfully described the conditions: "Imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon master." Better to be probed and studied by some psychiatrist than poked and probed by the head of the local prison branch of the Crips.

So, yes I do think there is a difference. If there wasn't, defendants wouldn't try so hard to "prove" their insanity.

As for this being an invitation for murderers to fake mental illness (actually mental deficiency, they already had the invitation and incentive to fake mental illness), I agree with you. But if it is not appropriate for the state to murder (excuse me, extinguish the life of) mentally retarded criminals, I don't see any way around the fact that having such a rule invites others to try to squeeze into the exception.
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