Insanity defense

[*michaelsean*]

(09-28-2020, 02:04 PM)fredtoast Wrote: If someone chops off his child's head and claims it was because God told him to should he be able to use a defense based on diminished capacity ( insanity).

I say "no" because all religious beliefs have no basis in reality or logic.  Therefore the argument would be that everyone who believes in God is insane.  And almost all religions have dogma that justifies killing in the name of their beliefs.

I’m saying you have to absolutely not know the difference between right and wrong in our laws. God may have told them to, but they still know it’s wrong in our conventional morality. Any attempt to hide the crime then no.