There is a real interesting book called *Guillty by reason of Insanity* which goes into the question of is there a difference between crazy and insane. The author argues that mental health professionals and not judges should be making decisions about competency. She had some pretty compelling examples.

My personal opinion is that when we do away with very sick people we can never study them to find out how they get SO fucked up, not to mention what it does to us. I think there should be life without parole for the criminally insane. Of course I would include rapists and other people who do crimes against persons in that category.