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Three Weeks to Say Goodbye Meet the author C.J. Box |
No Place for a Lady Meet the author Maggie Brendan |
Wind Dancer Meet the author Jamie Carie |
Silver Meet the author Edward Chupack |
Signora da Vinci Meet the author Robin Maxwell |
Robert K. Tanenbaum
Dear Reader, ESCAPE asks and answers questions of how to deal with supposedly "God-inspired" acts of murder and mayhem. We have witnessed terrorists and mass murderers attempt to escape responsibility by alleging that higher powers induced and justified their violent outrages. As a prosecutor, I investigated and tried several vicious and depraved murderers who invoked the insanity defense. In its present formulation, there is an aspect of insanity to the insanity defense. The issue is not whether the accused is "crazy" or suffers from a mental defect or disease but whether the defendant knew and appreciated the nature and consequences of his acts and that those acts were wrong. If we exonerate, via the insanity defense, the murderer who viciously kills, then what should we do with the terrorist, who alleges that God directed him to commit a heinous violent outrage that kills thousands? Read ESCAPE and find out! Robert K. Tanenbaum |