Tag: insanity
Updated on September 10, 2024
You Plead Insanity, I Plead Insanity, We All Plead Insanity: United States Supreme Court Reviews Whether Lack of an Insanity Defense is Unconstitutional
On October 7, 2019, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about Kansas’s lack of insanity defense, specifically whether it violates the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment. In 2009, James Kahler was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death …