On President Trump and the Death Penalty

Trump demands death penalty for all mass murder hate crimes while condemning 'white supremacy'

Mental Illness has become a shell game defense. Declaring someone unfit has always stopped the death penalty. What the Left did was declare every criminal legally insane, but still eligible to vote and then be released back into society. They made a mockery of Justice and they did it deliberately. We need to roll the rules back to what worked. Only citizens who are sane and competent should be allowed to vote or keep and bear arms. Determining that someone is unfit to vote or exercise another right such as the right to bear arms should only happen after due process.

If someone has been declared incompetent then if they are allowed into society someone else must take responsibility for them as their guardian, as is always true for a minor who is by definition irresponsible. If the unfit person then commits a crime the guardian may face some liability and the person would be removed from society until determined to be safe. If a person is convicted of a crime but not declared legally insane then they would face a period of incarceration and then be released.

Ideally the mentally unfit who are dangerous should be cared for in hospitals and the death penalty should apply to those who are legally sane but who commit capital crimes. The closure of the mental hospitals and the dumping of the deranged onto the streets following the exposure of the horrific conditions at Willowbrook by Geraldo Rivera was a failure of liberal policy.

President Trump's call for the death penalty for mass murderers should be seen in this context.