Laws Have Been so eviscerated by the punishment-obsessed rightwing that you would almost need to be hallucinating and eating your own feces to meet the legal test of insanity. At trial, the insanity defense generally hinges on a person’s inability to distinguish right from wrong or understand the “nature and quality” of his act. Being profoundly mentally ill is not enough. You have to be deemed “legally “insane.”

Just how crazy must a person be to be ruled incompetent for execution in the United States?