Insanity Pleas

I've never believed in the concept of insanity pleas. Everyone who commits a murder is crazy to some degree. Here is another story to show what a crock insanity pleas are.

State psychiatrists say a Troy man who bludgeoned and mutilated his mother to death in 2000 should be released from an institution, placed in a group home and eventually returned to the community because his mental illness is in remission.

In remission? This isn't athletes feet being in remission. This is a guy nutty enough to kill his mother and then eat her eye balls, but now a few doctors feel he is sane enough to wander around freely. Of course, if there is a legal problem there has to be an attorney making things worse.

"Yes, he couldn't have committed a worse crime," his attorney, Scott Neumann, said Wednesday. "But the question is: What do you do with him? Do you penalize him forever? The community would say, 'Yes, lock him up forever.' But he is not a danger, and under the law, he will eventually be released." The community would say, 'Yes, lock him up forever.' But he is not a danger, and under the law, he will eventually be released."

YES! Lock him up forever.