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[libodem]

1. Very interesting topic

Another thing which of interest to me is the law, and what defines mental illness in the commission of a crime.
You can be crazy as a hoot and still intellectually on some level know right from wrong. But is that the point? No it is about the thought disorder that allowed the thinking errors and lead to the conduct disorder. When a person does something this wrong they have to be crazy and in that way too far gone to be responsible for their actions.
It isn't just knowing right from wrong. There have to be delusions and a thought disorder, personality deficits, family dysfunction, emotional detachment, who knows maybe schizophrenia with voices? It is rare for most seriously mentally ill people to be violent. I think the violence is turned inward and felt as depression and hopelessness.
I have the same interest in justice for the segment of the criminal population with subgeneticly endowed IQ's . I think low IQ should rate special protection from the death penalty.
Same with combinations of mental or emotional illness and retardation.