re: Thoughts on trying the mentally insane

If anything, someone who is deemed "mentally insane" who committed a heinous, capital-offense-worthy act should just be put down- taken out back after a guilty-verdict and bullet to back of the head- 100% of the time if the crime warrants such a punishment, because they have no chance at rehabilitation.


Either that, or sanity should just never be taken into consideration. I'm not keen on the idea of a sliding scale of morality and punishment dependent on how disgusting or demented a person's behavior may be. Either they did something worth the same punishment a "sane" person would receive doing the same action, or they didn't.


I guess what I mean to say is that mental insanity should be considered the nail in the coffin, rather than the redemption card which stays the hand of the state-sanctioned reaper as it is used today.