John Hinkley Jr on the loose.

[Rev. Rye]

https://www.salemnews.com/region/hinkley...d0065.html


"We don't punish the insane".

This turd shot a US President - and three others - and because some twat doctor decided his marbles were out of whack - but are all better now --- he gets a pass....

Why?


I say keep the fuck locked up for 3 or 4 lifetimes.....

Do you feel that way because he attempted murder or because it was a president?  

I think it's a tricky thing with mentally ill people.  If they are truly mentally ill, they don't belong in a prison cell but perhaps a mental institution, but sometimes it seems like the plea of not guilty by reason of insanity is a bit of a stretch.

For the record, the perks of pleading insanity are often overstated: aside from it being a stupefyingly high bar to pass (Jared Lee Loughner was crazy enough that he actually had people on one of the craziest conspiracy boards out there concerned for his mental health and he still got declared sane), if you’re found insane, you can easily spend more time than you’d spend in a prison for the exact same fucking crime, and given that he’s already spent more time there locked up than any other would-be assassin in American history, Hinkley’s case illustrates this. And, yes, I do believe that if he didn’t plead insanity, he’d  actually have gotten out earlier. 

About the only positive is that capital punishment is off the table, but given that it took a third of a century for James Brady to die, that was never really an option for John Hinkley Jr.