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I do not believe the insanity defense should be a legitimate plea. The only thing that I feel should be different is that they are not put with regular prisoners. I know the ones with mental illnesses get put in a hospital, but they get treated better there than they would in a hospital.  The plea of insanity is just something people try not do when they realize what they have done was wrong. It takes a lot of time and effort to figure out if the person was mentally ill before the crime had happened. There are some people who do go to the doctor or mental illness disease and get help for it. If a person is not taking their medicine like they should, then it can make them do crazy things as well. It should be up to the person’s family members to make sure the person is getting the help that they need or to make sure the person is taking their medications. When a person pleads insanity, it costs the criminal justice system a lot of money because they have to research everything and it could take a while for someone to get convicted. They should have separate cells that they put the mentally ill and keep them away from the other offenders. I think people know what they are doing when they commit a crime and they just try to use that as an excuse.  Just like in the Dahmer case, where he killed 15 people and had 11 remains of dead people found in his apartment (O’Meara, 2009). Dahmer claimed that his statements were internally inconsistent and that he should be believed because he unburdened himself (O’Meara, 2009). The jury found that he did not suffer from a mental disease or illness when he committed the murders (O’Meara, 2009).

O’Meara, G. J. (2009). He speaks not, yet he says everything: What of that? Text, context, and pretext in state v. Jeffrey Dahmer. Denver University Law Review, 87(1), 97–137.

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