As I've said before I am very much in favour of capital punishment. You choose to take a life; your life should be forfeited. However, I don't believe a life should be taken in an accidental death even if there was gross neglect involved. In those cases the punishment should be proportional to the neglect. Also, the person should be banished from the province where the crime took place for the benefit of the victims family.
I have some deep reservations about science's knowledge of mental illness. The science is young and I'm sure 50 years from now many of the accepted truths today will be questioned and some rejected or changed. That being said I do know that schizophrenia is well documented as a disease. If that is what led to him committing the murder there is no way he should be sentenced to death. If he was capable of recognizing the on-set of mental episode and did nothing than he should have some criminal responsibility but, not death.
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