--- colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Lori R. Fye" wrote:
>
> >
> > Anyway Colin, here's a link to an editorial in
> today's Washington Post
> > that will give you hope for believing that not
> everyone in the U.S.
> > thinks the same, regarding crime and punishment:
>
> Thanks Lori-I went and read the article which is
> about a very ill
> paranoid schizophrenic who who the govt want to
> medicate so he can be
> tried and executed. I am lost for words.
>
> >
> >
> >
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/A4290-2001Jul29.html
> >
I just read that one too and, once again, I am
appalled. No matter how "sane" forced medication may
make him to stand trial, the fact remains that, if he
was psychotic at the time he did the crime, then he's
not guilty by reason of insanity. This isn't like
someone claiming the Twinky defence. If they want to
lock the guy up, they can put him in the forensic unit
of a psychiatric hospital, which is not a nice place
to be at all but where he won't be able to hurt anyone
else and, if things improve and medication and therapy
work and/or new treatments are found to make him truly
well again, he may one day regain his sanity and be
capable of repenting his crime.
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