Capital Punishment

I agree with the death penalty. i believe to a point, it is an effective deterrent to crime because it prevents the chance of those criminals getting out again on the streets however it probably doesn't scare future criminals away from committing these crimes. That is benefit also, it keeps the criminals who already committed the terrible crimes off the streets but the weaknesses are also there. When people commit crimes I'm sure the last thing they think about it not doing it because they might get the death penalty for it. also, another weakness is that for the few people who actually do think about the consequences of the crime they are about to commit, the criminals don't see the death penalty as a bad punishment because they are willing to die.

Its surprising to find out that the death penalty is so expensive too. My solution to this would be to limit the number of appeals to 1, time on death row to 5 years, and then stop with the lethal injection and just go with the firing squad. Bullets are like 6 cents so it would definitely save money and help the government get out of some debt. We'd also save money on housing these convicts with life without parole because it works out to about the same over time, the death penalty just has higher costs upfront.

Insanity defense

The ability to plead insanity in my eyes is not a good law at all. It is common knowledge that this defense is overused and taken advantage of by people looking for an easy way out of a crime. Even if the people are truly insane then they are the last people i want to see out in the streets in a few months anyway. Also, the point of the judicial system should be to look at each crime without any emotional connection and with this insanity defense, it provides a moral check that has no place in the system.
What constitutes insanity in this country is not knowing the difference of right and wrong. That's it. And this rule has been in place since 1843, McNaughton rule. That seems a little outdated to me. There should be multiple tests by multiple specialists in the psychology field to decide if this person is actually crazy.
The person who drowned her 5 kids and got off with insanity after a history in and out of institutions, got away with living in an open metal help facility. She should have received capital punishment for her actions because she thought about doing this more multiple years and after she did it, she got away with it basically. I personally don't care if she is crazy enough to kill all of her kids because she thought she was a bad mother, I never want to see her in America ever again and I'm pretty sure no other Americans want to see her here either. For that reason, she should receive capital punishment or deported to some other country. That way we don't have to pay for her shelter, food, and water, like we are doing now with taxpayers money.