A young woman has committed 6 murders. She has been brought before trial and convicted guilty. It is clear to you, beyond reasonable doubt that she is. It is also clear to you that she is clinically insane. She has a rare and extreme form of insanity. Your options are capital punishment (lethal injection) or a mental hospital with therapy. It is possible to fully recover from her disease but it is not likely, here are the percentages:
70% of people with her disease never recover
10% make a partial recovery but are never safe to live in normal society
15% make a partial recovery and can function to some level in society
5% make a full recovery
What would you sentence her to?
I would sentence her to the mental hospital, I think we have to take any measure we can to save her before resulting to capital punishment
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ReplyDeleteI say that they try to save her first, but if she is unsavable, or part of the ten percent that is a danger to society kill her.
ReplyDeleteAlso, is it worth saving her if she is in pain anyway? if she wants to die because of the pain she is in, kill her.
@ SJP III: Well, it's not like you can ask her. She IS insane to an extent.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone (yeah, everyone agrees, boring argument, blah blah), in saying that we should give her a chance at the mental hospital for full recovery, but if that danger from her mental illness still presides after a long period of mental therapy, then they should move onto the lethal injection.
But this depends on the people! What if this insane person killed your mother, your father, all of your siblings, and your closest friend?
ReplyDeleteYou would want them dead for all the people they have killed that are close to you. Why should this be any different for you than it is for another person who had their family killed?
I'm not arguing that I wouldn't want them killed. I'm arguing that it would be wrong. No one is perfect and of course the family of the victims would want revenge.
ReplyDelete@ Sophie: FIRST OF ALL: that wasn't part of the original situation. SECOND OF ALL, that's called being "bias". In a normal legal courtroom, they would not see that has "my dear mother, father and siblings" but "four innocent people".
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