In July 1998, Russell Weston killed two police officers in the U.S. Capital Building. He committed this act to prevent the spread of a disease, which he calls Black Heva. The victims of cannibals who are taking over the United States carry the disease. The two police men killed were the so-called cannibals. Weston is a paranoid schizophrenic. He now lives in the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina and has not received any treatment for his mental illness in the past three years (Hull 1,7). Should a psychotic individual remain medically untreated to avoid the death penalty? No human being should be mentally tortured to escape the punishment of his or her crime.…
