Comments on: Insanity On Death Row

Mentally Ill Prisoner Who Murdered Woman In 1985 In Tennessee Could Be Executed

[red_kb]

I am very sane actually im guessin you have had quite a few budlights tonight to be as IGNORANT as you are being it doesnt matter if he is insane he was sane enough to kill someone and i believe sittin in prison having to think about doing it is wat drove him to insanity he shouldnt have even had a trial he should have been stoned to death when he was arrested

[kasmith1964]

You are totally ignorant of mental illness. Thankfully, this country has still some protection for How can you execute the insane? Why don''t you examine your own insanity?

[red_kb]

well then why dont you go chack yourself into a facility for people with that problem and quite sayin someone with the problems this man has should be walking around freely with everyone else then. it doesnt take a genius to determine right from wrong and obviously this man did wrong and deserves the punishment from it. im guessing you are one of the tree huggers that would lock yourself to a tree to save it from being cut down when there is a whole forrest behind it...

[bennyblack1]

So, let''s not go and change the entire legal system, and waste a bunch of taxpayers'' money defending him, feeding him, clothing him, and medicating him. The law was administered and executed properly. Let the system stand. He did it, he doesn''t deny it. He should pay for it the way the law says he should and the way the JURY said he should.

[kasmith1964]

"Free" was the wrong word to use. He should be helped.

[kasmith1964]

I might be pyschotic at this very moment. And I wouldn''t even know it.

[bennyblack1]

missymoo;
Your compassionate demeanor, I can respect. However, it is compassionate people that do not understand the actions of a desparate man trying to save his life. It is for this very reason that it takes a special kind of person to administer tough judgements on people who commit such haneous crimes. It is so obvious that the way this man was raised had nothing to do with why he commited the crime. When he was convicted in the court room, walking around on his own cognisence, did it look like he had down syndrome? Did it look like he was dillusional? Your heart broke for the man because of what you had HEARD that he MIGHT have had. It may even be true that he has the disease now. But, he didn''t have it then, and is irrelevant to sentencing.
That is why people like us cannot execute the proper judgement for crimes. We see things that are irrelevant to sentencing and make those things the focus and the reasoning for withholding punishment. What IS relevant is that he first PLANNED the murder, KIDNAPPED the victim, drove around and TALKED HIMSELF into it, the MURDERED her in cold blood. Then, he was CONVICTED, which means there was more than sufficient evidence to not only PROVE that he did it, but to CONVINCE a jury of his peers that he did it. You have to remember, folks, that is was not only the law that convicted him, but the JURY that decided the death penalty should be imposed. The legal system worked. And I''m glad that it did.

[red_kb]

ITS JUST LIKE WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG WHEN U GET IN TROUBLE YOU DEXERVE TO PUNISHED HE OBVIOUSLY DESERVES THE DEATH SENTENCE BECAUSE HE KILLED SOMEONE PUT YOURSELF IN SOMEONES ELSES SHOES IF SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED WOULD YOUN WANT THE PERSON THAT DID IT JUST TO RECIEVE A SLAP ON THE WRIST?

[iceniner1]

I was very disappointed in this piece. It was trashy, exploitive, and several cuts below what I''m used to seeing on the show.

[red_kb]

he should be killed and THAT IS THAT

[kasmith1964]

I would absolutely love to debate all of you people that think this man should be killed.

[red_kb]

Ok im sorry that some of you people have no life other than to say oh Brenda''s sister is a hypocrit and not a christian. Ok really put yourself in her shoes: the tax dollars she is paying is helping this man that bruetally killed her sister stay alive. There is no room for this man in our society if he was let out he would probably kill again. If he remembers what he has done after 22 years obviously he should be punished and you say she id a hypocrit i know her personally, and she is one of the most loving caring Christian women in this country. and after all she has been through ,the series of events starting with her sister, i believe this man should be forced to ''kick the bucket''. so keep your opinions and bad language to yourselves she did not do this interview so she could be told she is not a hypocrit. If you have something bad to say it should be about this cold-hearted killer who is eating up YOUR tax dollars and is in my opinion a waste of perfectly good oxygen. If it came down to it and we were short on oxygen in Tennessee my first nomination to "go" would be this man. There is no point in letting someone sit in prison and die ,if they have a chance of getting out before they woulddie ok, but reallywould you feel comfortable with this man completely being proved mentally incompitant and moving in next door to you?

[kaykayb824]

Kasmith1964: What you say doesn''t make any sense. You say he was insane at the time of the murder and that he should be free, do you want him to kill more innocent people? Well that is pretty stupid, do you really want a murderer walking around freely with the rest of us? Reguardless of his mental state now he should be executed for his crime because he wasn''t mentally ill when he did it.

[kaykayb824]

Kasmith1964: What you say doesn''t make any sense. You say he was insane at the time of the murder and that he should be free, do you want him to kill more innocent people? Well that is pretty stupid, do you really want a murderer walking around freely with the rest of us? Reguardless of his mental state now he should be executed for his crime because he wasn''t mentally ill when he did it.

[ianbernard]

The piece on the psychotic killer was National Enquirer
trash. 60 minutes is going tabloid and it is a sad day for CBS.

[kasmith1964]

We really do not have complete free will. This concept is very difficult to accept. This man was obviously insane at the time of the murder and should be free. It is horrible that someone''s life was taken. We need better funding for the Mentally ill.

[kobikaroo]

I would like to know what medication or medications the prisoner is currently on. They were alluded to several times in the interview but, unless I missed it, the specific meds were never mentioned.

[kasmith1964]

People are still under the illusion that they truely have free will. The real truth is hard to face.

[esq32]

Lara Logan: pathetic interviewer at best

Suggestion: terminate her awful services, and tell her to go back to taking journalism classes, if she ever took any at all.

This is objective reporting with nothing but subjective, inquiring, nosy questions having nothing to do with the gravamen of the sordid issue?

[esq32]

Lara Logan: pathetic interviewer at best

Suggestion: terminate her awful services, and tell her to go back to taking journalism classes, if she ever took any at all.

This is objective reporting with nothing but subjective, inquiring, nosy questions having nothing to do with the gravamen of the sordid issue?