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Originally Posted by flylock shox
That's a different issue altogether from what I was getting at.
Assuming he was sane at the time he committed the murders, and assuming he has been mentally fit long enough to exhaust all avenues of appeal, and assuming capital punishment is an okay thing to do, then I really don't see what difference his subsequent mental state would make with respect to proceeding with the execution.
Of course, such circumstances might highlight the cruelty of state-imposed murders. For example, if he had forgotten the murder, and had regressed mentally to the point of appearing as a frightened simpleton who didn't understand what was going on, it would look (and feel) pretty bad to put him to death I think. In such circumstances the person who committed the murder might as well already be dead, and I don't know what sense of gratification might be achieved by disposing of the shell that remains.
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I agree.
My gripe here would be that there is a very good chance he was mentally ill at the time or the killing. Meanwhile someone more competent would probably be able to put a better mentally ill defence together.