That says it all
Well, hopefully he will soon be beyond all earthly pain and trouble.
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.
MARK TWAIN
I do truly understand why we don't try people who are mentally incompetent, because they can't defend themselves. I understand why we don't convict people who were mentally incompetent when they committed a crime, because they didn't understand that their actions were wrong.
But I just don't understand why we can't execute a person simply because they go crazy in prison.
That combination of words simply does not seem to make any sense to me......
Kill him and be done with it
It says that this judge is competent and courageous. A psychiatrists who believes that itchy body rash can be the work of flesh-eating demons is a very strange psychiatrist.
Tough noogies.
He had it together enough to load, aim and fire a weapon and kill THIRTEEN people.
All three experts testified that, in their opinion, Banks is not mentally competent under the standards set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1986 Florida case of Ford v. Wainwright, which held that the Constitution bars the execution of the insane.
BS!
The Constitution says no such thing.
I'm SO sick of these animals getting a free ride for life on the taxpayer's back because they were too young or crazy to 'know what they were doing'
They DID IT!
That's all that should matter.
1983 trial...and this scum and his lawyers are still sucking up taxpayer dollars out of PA's pathetic injustice system! There is absolutely no excuse why a mass murderer of 13 should be using oxygen that a good rat could use TWENTY-FOUR years after his killing spree. PA is guilty of gross incompetence in this case for not dispatching this vermin at least fifteen years ago.
It's an outrage that this guy has been on death row since 1983! 22 years!! If they'd killed him 20 yrs ago, they wouldn't have this dilemma.
What does being mentally competant have to do with anything? So if they are a nutjob, we have to support their nutjob selves for another 50 years? BS. Even more reason to remove them and their delusional selves from the earth. Hell, the left support euthanizing the mentally handicapped (Terri Schiavo), why not the ones who are mentally handicapped enough to murder 13 innocent people?
Hypocrites.
Even kids know how to play crazy so their parents can get them Riddlin(sp).
shenanigans
. "Mr. Banks is not with us mentally," one of his lawyers, Billy Nolas, told the judge.
--NEWSFLASH pal. He killed 13 people. He never was "with us" mentally.