Insanity

believe that you have killed an elderly man. We both know that you have a disease, and I believe you may have insanity. Nevertheless, as your attorney, I know that what you have done could result in prison. In fact, some people are executed for actions similar to yours. I know that you don’t consider yourself insane. However, it will be in your best interest to plead guilty under insanity as it will lower potential jail time and prevent execution. To prove you are insane, you must present a…

“Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population” (188). Prisons are not equipped with doctors, physiatrists or medications for the treatment and care these people need, an issue usually followed with violent reactions from poorly coping mentally ill. The cruel incarceration of the mentally ill decreases their ability to recover from the trauma they have survived and…

Speech #1 Edward R. Murrow, a CBS reporter and war correspondent delivered a report from Buchenwald, Germany on April 16, 1945. He delivered this dialect upon seeing the atrocities committed by the Germans towards the Jews. He addresses the American people, describing the scene he had witnessed at this labor camp, which he found the scene to be so unbelievable that he is rendered speechless many times through out his speech. Murrow’s outrage is so apparent through-out his account, that it is…

Oliver Wendell Homes, an American writer from the 1800s, once stated, “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked” (quote 9). Along with torture, insanity is one of the main focuses in the Gothic movement. The movement came as an offshoot of Romanticism in the early 19th century before the beginning of the Victorian era. The Gothic form had a curious appeal in terms of weaving a beauty of the unpleasant, the horrifying, and even the grotesque (Spiro par. 1). There were many…

expertly used an insanity plea to lessen the sanctions that should have and inevitably would have been brought upon her. The major dilemma in this entire case was not based upon whether Andrea Yates had or had not committed the crime of murder five times over on her own flesh and blood or even if she was mentally sick. The defining line in this case is the interpretation by which we judge insanity and the scale by which we way the accuracy if someone convicted of a crime and pleads insanity…

“True! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” This was true, that man was not mad, not insane, he was sane. I believe that man was sane when he killed the old man because he knew exactly what he was doing. The first reason I know he is sane is because according to the confession, “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire.”(Poe) Why would a madman kill someone he loved?…

The idea of madness is incredibly pervasive in Shakespeare’s Hamlet as insanity was not often addressed at the time and never to the extent that Shakespeare took. When Shakespeare broaches the topic of madness through Hamlet and Ophelia, he explores the way madness is sparked in each character. Ophelia’s madness arises rapidly after her father’s death and she falls into complete insanity. Hamlet’s madness, on the other hand, gradually grows from an act into a raging depression that frequently…

A specific example of Insanity is an abusive relationship. In most cases the man hits the woman over and over again, and every time she leaves he convinces her he’s changed, and begs her to come back, and every time he hasn’t changed and the violence continues. Most abusers are narcissists, who use psychological abuse to convince their spouse that they deserve to be hit, and that everything is their fault. And in most cases the victim falls right into it and believes everything he says. This is…

Economics and Political Views of the Insanity Defense Is the insanity plea a valid defense? Word Count: 841 A The insanity defense is a defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to an episodic or persistent psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act. Often used by murderers and serial killers who are actually clinically insane. The percentage of NGRI (not guilty by reason of insanity) defenses success…

conscious, where his thoughts chastise him. Throughout the play, Hamlet has contradictory thoughts and out bursts of word salad. It will never be known whether Hamlet was faking this erratic madness or if Hamlet did go mad. Hamlet's decline to insanity is first present after he converses with the spirit of his deceased father. At first Hamlet appears to be incoherent and confused. It is first evident that Hamlet is losing his sanity when he has a conversation with Polonius and regards him…