In criminal trials, the insanity defense is the claim that the defendant is not responsible for his or her actions due to mental health problems. Any mental illness could serve the basis for an insanity defense, excluding conditions that have antisocial behaviors as their primary characteristic and appear to have no physiological basis. Overall I believe that if someone has a real mental illness and it made him or her commit their crime, they should not go to prison. I feel that the insanity defense should be used as a viable defense.
The reason the insanity plea should be a viable defense is that mentally insane people should not be punished for crimes they didn’t know they were committing. People cannot help being mentally