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Originally Posted by Ammi
..one thing with that though is that there are sometimes cases where people have confessed to crimes they didn't commit because of their mental state...there was one quite recently in America I believe, he wasn't executed but spent most of his life in prison when he was indeed innocent but confessed because of his mental health at the time....
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Quite true, but I'm sure that mental health professionals would be able to sort them out and they could be denied the choice.
The amount of prisoners you're talking about is tiny anyway.