NO electric chair, NO life sentence in prison.

LIFE in a psych ward, until the person is sufficiently rehabilitated.

This topic was the focus of a Q&A in SZ magazine about four years ago: should a person with SZ, who kills someone, be released into the community after he serves time or should he be kept locked up?  One of the women who responded if memory serves was the mother of the guy Vince Li decapitated on the Greyhound bus.

I'm sorry I don't have any way of reprinting that Q&A here yet it did address this very topic four years ago.

To end here:  after the crime is committed, I see no reason why the defendant can't be forced to take medication.  A history of violence by someone with SZ is an indicator of future violence, especially if that person never takes his medication.

That's how I see it, though I understand how you feel.

Regards,

Christina