Capital Punishment for Mentally Ill?

The State of Texas has decided to execute an inmate that has severely mentally ill issues. Mr. Panetti committed murder and was convicted in 1995 for the killing of his in-laws with a hunting rifle. In his capital murder trial, he was dressed in a cowboy suit and attempted to subponea, there was a controversy about let him represent himself because his state of mind was diagnoses with schizophrenia, delusions, and psychotic episodes. Mr. Panetti is not just another insane prisoner; his name is synonymous with the Supreme Court’s modern jurisprudence about mental illness on death row. In Panetti v. Quarterman, decided in 2007, the justices held that it is not enough for a defendant simply to be aware that he is going to be executed and why — the previous standard the court had used in permitting the execution of the mentally ill. Rather, he must have a “rational understanding” of why the state plans to kill him. Mr. Panetti understood that the state claimed the reason for his death sentence was the murder of his in-laws, but he believed the real reason was “spiritual warfare” between “the demons and the forces of the darkness and God and the angels and the forces of light.” But the justices refused to set defined guidelines for determining whether someone is competent enough to be executed, and they did not overturn Mr. Panetti’s sentence. Instead, they sent the case back to the lower courts for a fuller reconsideration of his current mental state.

Ebola criticism

In Zendy Vazquez Government In America Blog  she saids that Ebola has been controlled in the United States. I agree with that, but there are more than just one case in US soil. In the couple of months there have been more cases of Ebola in the United States. It all begin when Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian who traveled to Dallas, began developing symptoms for Ebola on Sept. 19 and tested positive for Ebola six days later. Two nurses, Nina Pham and Amber Joy Vinson, were caring for Mr. Duncan during what federal health officials have called the highest risk period, when he was vomiting and experiencing diarrhea. Both nurses tested positive for Ebola after Mr. Duncan died. This are some of the recent cases where Ebola was involved. October 10, 2014 a healthcare worker at Texas Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the index patient tested positive for Ebola. October 15, 2014 a second healthcare worker who provided care for the index patient at Texas Presbyterian Hospital tested positive for Ebola. In October 23 The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported a case of Ebola in a medical aid worker who had returned to New York City from Guinea, where the medical aid worker had served with Doctors Without Borders. I do agree they with you that United States has making a good controlled; but this country could do more, for example, I think no commercial flights from Africa should land in the United Stated. Call me panic dude but I am just concern about this virus spreading all the nation and becoming Zombie land.