writer7
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JA isn't nearly insane legally. Those kinds of distinctions have been thought about and legislated for eons in the US, so I'm not worried at all about that. Tons of murderers have personality disorders, as you might imagine! It's a personality problem, not a mental disease, if that makes sense. Or, more importantly, there is nothing that stops the person from being able to see reality in a personality disorder. Legal insanity only involves diseases that involve hallucinations, etc, that would make a reasonable person mistake them for reality. We had a mass shooter here where I live who believed the people he shot were demons, for instance. Schizophrenia. JA wasn't confused about shooting any demons, clearly!
I want to say a bit about the death penalty and JA. I don't agree with the death penalty in a lot of cases where people do (for spiritual reasons), but I know that I'm not really qualified to have much of an opinion. I go with what the families and friends think is best. It's not my place to decide, imho. So please don't be hurt if you hear me say that I don't support the death penalty in a lot of situations. I'm glad my opinion holds no weight, because I'm so far removed from it being a personal matter at all to me, thank God.
The kind of prisons I'd have for LWOP would raise a few eyebrows, though
They'd be thinking of nothing more than their crimes and their soul (and spiritual questions), period. Vow of silence and the whole shebang. If it's good enough for many monks, it's good enough for a murderer, imho.
I want to say a bit about the death penalty and JA. I don't agree with the death penalty in a lot of cases where people do (for spiritual reasons), but I know that I'm not really qualified to have much of an opinion. I go with what the families and friends think is best. It's not my place to decide, imho. So please don't be hurt if you hear me say that I don't support the death penalty in a lot of situations. I'm glad my opinion holds no weight, because I'm so far removed from it being a personal matter at all to me, thank God.
The kind of prisons I'd have for LWOP would raise a few eyebrows, though