Comments on: Insanity On Death Row

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

[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, shallow at best

Interview: worse than worse

Solution: termination of her awful services

[esq32]

Lara Logan: pathetic interviewer, shallow at best

Interview: worse than worse

Solution: termination of her awful services

[funmatt98]

This guy is playing the system and needs to be a man and take the needle. If these LIB%u2019s had a family member murdered then they would not be so bleeding heart for these scum. That is what this %u201CINMATE%u201D is nothing but %u201CSCAM!%u201D

[xenapi]

It is disgusting and sickening to see another cruel killer glorified as he was on your show. Your interviewer need to learn some skills, so as not to glamorize these killers; we do not want to hear details of how he killed his poor victim, for purposes of entertainment. What happened to your show??? I will never watch it again with that young, immature Logan "reporter" or with another killer story, have you also caved in to entertainment at any cost???
I have worked in many prisons , with paroles and rehabilitated offenders, and have seen many people like that. Those types are not worthy of any air time or my previous time, so you have lost another viewer.
xenapi

[jonesfam05]

For all of you who say this was a waste of time to air, try experiencing a fraction, better yet try living a day, in the shoes of Mrs. Brown and see if you still consider it a waste of time. Im sure none of us have experienced half the hardship she has and for her to be able to say she forgives the man who brutally killed her sister is a tremendous sign of her Christianity. There are those of us out there who find it hard to forgive the smallest offenses, much less such a serious matter as this. Futhermore, Thompson pled guilty of his crime at the time it was committed and to this day can tell you exactly what he did. That shows no signs of insanity to me. If you ask me, the only insane people involved are those who continue to believe the ever-flowing lies out of Thompson''s mouth.

[timlahrman]

I am not suggesting that Tenn. is practicing eugenics only that the mindset of "why should we flit the bill for this man any further" is not necessarily representitive of "justice" ..... the mindset is rationalization for not caring.

[timlahrman]

From the very start, if, Thompson was insane he could not make a voluntary waiver and, if, he was insane he would not even know so.

Second, to kill is insane and to talk about it so freely is even moreso insane.

Third if you do not believe that killing someone is insane and that talking about it so freely it''s moreso insane then, in effect, you are acknowledging that you yourself are susceptible to like behavior ... lest you be insane.

[passiflora62]

He knows what he did and why. We can all forgive him as christians and still seek the death penalty. Wouldn''t we put a rabid dog down within a matter of days or even minutes?? Whats so different about someone who killed so brutally??? Haven''t we spent enough of our tax dollars on his medications, food and housing? What''s next?

[stackpole83]

For those of you trying to play the eugenics card: The eugenics program used by the Nazis involved selective breeding as well as the killing of the disabled. It is quite a stretch to compare the State of Tennessee carrying out the execution of a murderer to the Nazis killing innocent disabled people. Thompson is not innocent. He voluntarily confessed to a vicious murder, was given a fair trial, and was found guilty by a court of law. Carrying out his execution is not eugenics. It is justice.

[kaykayb824]

To Athought1: Yes many of us have done things that we need to be forgiven for but how many of us have commited such a horrible crime as to kill someone. Of coarse Brenda''s sister hasn;t gotten over it, that is the kind of thing people do not EVER get over. Obviously you haven''t lost someone close to you. She isn''t wishing the same kind of death on him as her sister had but he has to pay for his crime otherwise we''re sending out a message that what Gregory Thompson did was ok

[timlahrman]

Spectrum 108 posted Nov. 9, 2007 @ 5:04

How right you are .... it was called "eugenics" and before that infamous fascist Adolf, the mindset/philosophy of the "elitist/supremisist/master racists" originated in, believe it or not, 1907 Indiana, USA.

Adolf''s "media masters" made a documentary film under the auspices of a program called T-4 which resulted in the populace accepting that some life was unworthy of living. And without question you can find that same mindset on this discussion board.

[citizenusa-2009]

You folks sound like your "fearless leader". Baby Bush''s hobby in Texas (while he was Governor), was executing mentally ill criminals! That in part, is what makes him the "wonder boy" that he is. He was the "decider" even back then. Loves to have the power of life and death in his hands...you betcha!

[timlahrman]

The law of insanity is "sui generis", which means, of it''s own kind. It is the most conveluted and confusing "body of law" known to american jurisprudence. If you do not know and understand the law, and historical law, of insanity, you cannot imagine the complexities of Mr. Thompson''s circumstance. I am in no way defending the crime underlying this story, murder is always wrong, but, I am compelled to defend the insane. I know a thing or two about this issue, I am a certified paralegal and I have dedicated the past eighteen years of my life to this issue.

Sadly, the courts will likely allow this man to be executed. And moreso sad is the fact that the lives of those "civilly insane" persons will be, once again, impacted to the negative by an evoloving body of legal decisions where the insanity defense is central.

Just once, I would like to see the media present the issues of "insanity" and "incompetency" through the lens of the "civil court docket" ..... There are far more insane persons involved in the civil courts than the criminal courts and focusing the issue of insanity around criminal cases does a grave injustice to those who are "civilly insane".

[hypnotoad72]

Okay, give him some risperdal and then give him an injection. End of argument.

[bequialife]

Why do we waste time, energy, resources and money to keep the sub-humans alive? Just so they can rot in a cell the rest of their life? Look, they have proven danger to the public; there is reason for death penalty. Not everyone''s life is precious, certainly not these criminals.

[saabtoo]

What I found so horrifying about this inmate was that he not only admitted his guilt.. but has no remorse. And yet, he stated "he felt good" (due to the medication he was presently on)
How dare he feel anything??!

"He has been medicated by the state for most of his 22 years on death row. Thompson receives a daily cocktail of anti-psychotic mood-stabilizing pills, and injections twice a month."

He receives a daily cocktail of anti-psychotic mood-stabilizing pills?

If Mr. Thompson is indeed on all that medication to modify his alleged schizophrenia and psychotic disorders than he obviously is sane enough to take responsibility for his admitted crime.
Whereby qualifying his case to supersede any Supreme Court ruling.

[sherry73-2009]

the lawyers of this man say it is cruel and inhuman for this man to be on death row..how inhuman and cruel was it of him to murder a young woman who had her whole life ahead of her..i say give me the needle or let me pull the switch to an electric chair for him...you could tell he is not mentally challenged but a con man who sees that by lying through his teeth..he can fool anyone...he is sickning to the human race...i would like to see him executed this very minute then my hard earned work dollars would not be helping to keep him alive!!!!!!!!!!!

[athought1]

after 22years you dont think that he is sorry or that he does not think about what he done and he might not be insane but does killing him make it right and what justice is going to come out of that im not saying let him out of jail just off deathrow

[athought1]

for godsake people if brenda''s sister has not gotten over this by now than what kind of church going person is she to want him to die i know we''ve all done things in our life that we need to be forgiving for it may not be murder but it was done