Do you believe the insanity defense serve a useful function today.
2006-07-21 22:33:31 · 9 answers · asked by JB 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
well let them use it. and lock them up in the criminal psych ward. they won't like it at all. it's worse than the regular prisons. lol they'll be screaming to get out. they have no idea what they're getting into. (i used to work for the county m.a.'s office. the psych place was across the street. lol a total circus)
2006-07-21 22:38:50 · answer #1 · answered by vanessa w 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people simply aren't mentally competant. That just a fact, and not "anybody's" fault. Certainly, there are stupid decisions. But, on the whole, the insanity defence is valid.
2006-07-22 03:07:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my "insanity" is not a defense it is an offensive tactic that I use to participate fully in a world that has been created by those claiming to be "sane" and yet the world is in total disaray. I just do it to fuction that's all man, that's all.
2006-07-21 22:42:56 · answer #3 · answered by SmoothFlo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell yes. . . if a person is insane then he wont change just by goin to jail. . . . i think in that case he should join a rehab. . .somewhere it does serve as a usefull function till not manipulated. . .
2006-07-22 03:54:24 · answer #4 · answered by hellsangel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes if the subject is insane. Which some are.
2006-07-21 23:31:08 · answer #5 · answered by baroness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if they r insane they should go 2 jail anyways or else they could do it again i mean come on there insane
2006-07-21 22:37:16 · answer #6 · answered by mello yello 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course. If a person is insane, then what's the point of sending them to jail?
2006-07-21 22:36:26 · answer #7 · answered by Charles D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's a loophole for the rich.
2006-07-21 22:47:55 · answer #8 · answered by paul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's just another cop out
2006-07-21 22:42:46 · answer #9 · answered by Brendy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋