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By that I mean, so many serial killers today like to use what I like to call the "I know it was wrong but like to think I can sucker jurors and the judge to believe I was really not responsible for my actions" excuse. Personally, if it were up to me there would be no such thing as an "insanity" defense. Every single one of these pieces of **** who comment horrific crimes are fully aware of what they are doing. You may retort with "But few actually get such convictions". That may be true, but going off that, couldn't pretty much every ruler in the middle ages and ancient times use that for an excuse regarding their actions?
My personal opinion, is that it can be very well proven that someone DID something horrific, such as murder, then aside from something like a self-defense case (I do think you should be able to kill someone when you are definitely defending yourself from a real and credible threat)...it should not matter if the perpetrator is insane or was an act of passion or premeditated or what.
I saw another post somewhere that said they thought that criminals needed to be locked up not for punishment, nor for rehabilitation, but to protect society from them. And I agree, with someone who either cannot control their violent urges, or who can justify logically doing something horrific, or who is not sane enough to be safe in society, man put them down like the rabid animals that they are!
BUT. I want some pretty rigorous standards of proof that they did the crime, when I say that I support the death sentence like that.
In this world we're living, there'll always be someone that pays their deeds and someone that got away with it. Hardly conceiveable but no less true.
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