[Helen 28]

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....

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.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Helen 28

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.

..but mental health professionals didn't do that in this case because he spent many years in prison so then it would be, how long would a convicted criminal be in prison before the choice was offered/how long until they knew for sure...and however long that was, it would still be left open for being wrong...and really only a tiny percentage would be wrong, surely because basically an innocent person would have been assisted suicide...I just think we can't think ..oh well, there might be a few mistakes but whatever, type thing...