[blitzgig]

Finally some sanity from the Court!

(ironic, considering the subject matter isn't it? LOL!)

[Purrcival]

Let me take a guess at the three dissenters:

Stevens, Ginsberg, and Breyer?

[Publius6961]

Bottom line, most insane people can figure out what's not right, and never kill anyone.
Making the issue more complicated is an insult to them.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

MARK TWAIN

[BerniesFriend]

Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Insanity Law

Good..someone should be very happy..

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

But Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said in a dissent that restricting expert testimony deprived jurors of evidence they needed to "make sense'' of Clark's claims of mental illness.

They don't need to make sense of his mental illness. This is not a professional psychiatric panel. They only need to hear the part applicable to the law. They are average citizens who can apply common sense to that specific issue. More than they need could serve to confuse them and draw an emotional response.

[AntiGovernment]

Very good. Being a minor and/or mentally ill should not exempt someone from execution, though I think it is preferable to have these animals rot in a prison for the rest of their lives.

[Vaquero]

probably caused by the insanity peppers. The merciless pepper of Quetzlzacatenango, grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum;

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

And pray tell, what right does the Supreme Court have to be stickin' their hands in OUR cookie jar? Seems to me that SCOTUS is askin' fer truble...

[robertpaulsen]

Oh, great! And what about those of us who ARE being pursued by space aliens? Now we have no way to defend our actions.

This just opens the door to space alien manipulation -- this is just the beginning.