blackbird Posted June 5, 2024 Report Posted June 5, 2024 (edited) The NCR defense is being used very often now. It allows people who committed multiple murders or one murder to get off. They are sent to a mental institution and some board somewhere decides when they are fit to be allowed day pass or some kind of release on certain conditions. Psychiatrists are being used by the defense to make the case that the accused is not guilty by reason of insanity. They even claim temporary insanity at the time the murder was committed and can be declared NCR. This doesn't sound like justice. First off, psychiatry is a very questionable profession and there are differences of opinion about the theories behind it. But when psychiatrists are used in murder trials, then it becomes very difficult to deal with. People just take what they say as absolute truth. The common success of the NCR defence is also sending the wrong message to society. It could be adding to the number of murders by making potential murderers think they will get off anyway. I believe if they committed murder, there should be no NCR defence. Murder is murder. But NCR is often used and childhood upbringing, etc. etc. If they commit the crime, they should do the time. They already escape capital punishment since that was abolished long ago. Edited June 5, 2024 by blackbird Quote
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