Chargeable in Court vs. Insanity-Mental Illness by Nuno Nogueira in JFSCI - Juniper Publishers
A person can be considered chargeable (responsible for a crime) in the court if proved having a Psychopathic personality. This means that the individual doesn’t suffer from a mental illness and so, thus not qualifying it for the category of non chargeable or insanity. The insanity category includes the mental illnesses, summarized in the DSM-IV, in which the person is not aware of the acts committed at the time of the crime, so he can't be blamed by the court for the acts committed. Psychopathy as mentioned, not being a mental illness, invokes that the accused is fully aware of the acts he has committed in a specific time, or even years, and nevertheless he decides to commit them repeatedly, regardless of the consequences that may result when he is captured, like the eminent incarceration of life time, death penalty by lethal injection (in the majority of US stated), by hanging (e.g. Delaware), electric chair, gas chambers like Wyoming or even by firing (squadron platoon) in Oklahoma and Utah, this last one, only if request by the criminal person, being the last death by firing in 2010. In general terms, Psychopathy is considered to be a personality disorder (not mental illness), in which the individual is fully aware of the malicious acts his practicing and their consequences in the case of being discovered [1].
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