Agreed. If you're too incompetent to stand trial, then the verdict should be instantly guilty. Especially for repeat offenders. Too dumb to understand the impact of what you did doesn't lessen the impact of what you did.
It's not just "doesn't lessen" it makes it so much more damning. The whole reason we aren't executing ne'er do wells for the protection of the good, is womanly crying about the whole "muh rehabilitation" pipe dream
Being deemed incompetent to stand trial is to be found mentally incapable of rehabilitation, which means there's zero reason to keep them around anymore
My hot take: Incompetence is worse than intent. Intent can be trained away, assessed, managed. Incompetence is eternal. Someone who causes harm by incompetence WILL cause harm by incompetence again.
The guy who killed his wife for cheating on him? Likely not going to kill anyone else, at least until/if he gets married again, and even then, not likely. The guy who killed someone else's wife because he was texting while driving? He's 100% chance gonna text and drive again, and create the exact same scenario again.
Agreed. If you're too incompetent to stand trial, then the verdict should be instantly guilty. Especially for repeat offenders. Too dumb to understand the impact of what you did doesn't lessen the impact of what you did.
It's not just "doesn't lessen" it makes it so much more damning. The whole reason we aren't executing ne'er do wells for the protection of the good, is womanly crying about the whole "muh rehabilitation" pipe dream
Being deemed incompetent to stand trial is to be found mentally incapable of rehabilitation, which means there's zero reason to keep them around anymore
My hot take: Incompetence is worse than intent. Intent can be trained away, assessed, managed. Incompetence is eternal. Someone who causes harm by incompetence WILL cause harm by incompetence again.
The guy who killed his wife for cheating on him? Likely not going to kill anyone else, at least until/if he gets married again, and even then, not likely. The guy who killed someone else's wife because he was texting while driving? He's 100% chance gonna text and drive again, and create the exact same scenario again.
They're doing it on purpose.