{"id":31434,"date":"2015-07-16T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T04:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=31434"},"modified":"2015-07-16T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T04:42:14","slug":"31434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=31434","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laws Have Been so\u00a0eviscerated 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&#8217;s inability to distinguish right from wrong or understand the &#8220;nature and quality&#8221; of his act. Being profoundly mentally ill is not enough. You have to be deemed &#8220;legally &#8220;insane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just how crazy must a person be to be ruled incompetent for execution in the United States?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-31435\" href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=31435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31435\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-31436\" href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=31436\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31436\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laws Have Been so\u00a0eviscerated 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&#8217;s inability to distinguish right from wrong or understand the &#8220;nature and quality&#8221; of his act. Being profoundly [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31434"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31443,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434\/revisions\/31443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}