If someone becomes mentally ill while serving a d*ath penalty sentence should they still have to do the punishment?

I thought the U.S. Supreme Court already ruled it unconstitutional to execute someone who is not mentally competent at the time of execution?

Either way, I’m against the death penalty in general so putting someone to death who is mentally ill just makes the practise that much more heinous.

I think that’s one of the barriers to recognising and treating mental illness: many people still don’t take it seriously. Americans didn’t take post-traumatic stress disorder seriously for years, and now that there are thousands of war veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD living among the population, that casual dismissal is no longer an option. Sure you can fake a mental illness, but you can also fake physical illness; that doesn’t make it any less valid for the millions of people who really do have it.

I have been told I have PTSD and I am a disabled war vet, and I think they are full of it. I do not remember this many mental illnesses 20 years ago. I have a neighbor that does not work and is claiming 100% mental illness, and I have talk with him for hours and fill he is full of it. I think 50% of the claims are used to get out of something weather it is work, punishment, etc.

I am all for the eye for and eye, a life for a life.

But there are people who really do have PTSD, both now and in the past, not just from wars but from all kinds of traumas. Certainly there are claims of fraud, but as I said that’s true with any illness or disorder. And 20 years ago, the medical field didn’t know nearly as much about mental disorders as they do now. Regarding capital punishment, if a person does not have the capacity to form intent, the competency to stand trial, or there are other mitigating factors, I don’t see how you can legally or morally put them to death. If they don’t have a rational understanding of why they are being killed, again, I don’t see how it can be justified.

I dont believe they should, but i thought that was already a law? I was under the impression that they wont put to death a person who is not mentally competant. I’m not pro-death penalty to begin with and honestly dont see how its a good form of justice seeing as how the prisoner ends up sitting on death row for decades most of the time before they are even put to death. Im rambling though, back to the question. I dont feel its humane in the least bit to put a person to death who is not mentally competant. Regardless of if the mental illness was before or after scenetencing. Its also not as easy to fake a mental illness as people think…thats a pretty big myth. Death row inmates are monitered constantly and go through tons of evaluations…its not that easy to fake being mentally ill. Also, if being on death row for decades is causing the prisoners to becomes mentally ill then maybe they need to re-evaluate the way they do things. Regardless of what a person has done - they are still a person.

they still did the crime ……. so yes

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I dont agree with the d*at penalty regaurdless.

Well she said they did have the capacity but later they claimed not to. I feel they need to hang, just my point of view.

As Gandhi once said “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Killing someone to show that killing someone is wrong is just f*cked up logic, it’s ridiculous.

I agree Satan…it’s also very hypocritical.

No if you take this person out of circulation he will not kill again, plus other people would be less likely to repeat his offense.

But that’s exactly what the Supreme Court ruled in Panetti v. Quarterman, 2007: you can’t kill someone who doesn’t have the capacity to understand why they are being killed at the time of execution. If you feel they need to hang, so be it. It’s not easy for the United States to keep company with China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, but commitment is what matters!

The death penalty doesn’t deter violent crime. Several studies have shown the death penalty doesn’t reduce the h0micide rate at all. There’s really no good reason to have it, but law tends to reflect the values and morals of the people, and there are just enough states in America to supporting keeping it.

Well we both have different views on this, and like my view really matters in the dictatorship we call the USA, Land of no freedom and few brave.

If it has been proven that, that pearson, has a metal illness I dont think they should. But it has to be proven, otherwise everyone would start faking such thing.