Cry me a river — mentally challenged is no reason to get away with murder. Texas is the “civilized” state.
.....Mathis, 32, was condemned for a shooting spree that killed Travis Brown III, 24, and Daniel Hibbard, 31, less than two weeks before Christmas in 1998. A 15-year-old girl, Melony Almaguer, also was shot and left paralyzed.
Almaguer, seated in a wheelchair and accompanied by her husband, was among a small group of people who watched Mathis die from behind a window at the Huntsville Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
“I never meant to hurt you,” Mathis, strapped to a gurney with tubing taped to his arms, told Almaguer. “You were just at the wrong place at the wrong time.”....
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Here’s the deal... either these people are so incapable that they should be institutionalized for societies safety or they are perfectly capable of being free in society and thus responsible for their actions.
You can’t have it both ways.
Liberals want to argue that these retards can’t be held responsible... but we still must let them run free!
BS! either lock them up, or hold them responsible.
He was mentally competent to find a crack house and pursue its product. He was mentally competent to obtain a weapon and to produce a loaded gun when he determined he needed to use it to save him from the trouble which he determined he would encounter if they were to finger him in the crack purchace. That is a fairly linear line of thinking which would lead one to believe this persons cognitive ability was intact and he used them and he acted upon his perceived fear of being found out.