Catherine McKay wrote:
> --- 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.
I agree with everything you wrote tho i don't think repent is the right
word should he ever be well. If he gets well, yse he will ahve shit to
deal with but he still wouldn't be responsible for his crime as he was
sick at the time. That wouldn't stop him feeling regret of course, and
it is not something I would like to live with. I certainly know that for
me, I know of some things I did when in a manic phase whoch i regret but
I don't beat myself up over it-I couldn't have done any different given
y state of mind at the time. Thank God it wasn't anything really serious
like murder.
Funny, the murderous thoughts have only come to me since I have been
well........
>
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