mental illness

North Carolina death row inmate Guy Tobias LeGrande has been found incompetent to be executed under both state law and the 8th Amendment of the United States Constitution.

After the jump, read a May 2007 post from my blog with more about Mr. LeGrande's mental state.

The strange case of Guy Tobias LeGrande goes on. In 1996, Guy LeGrande was sentenced to death in Stanly County for the murder of Ellen Munford. (Incidentally, the man who hired LeGrande and provided him with the murder weapon - Munford's husband - was convicted only of second-degree murder.) LeGrande fired his court-appointed attorneys and was allowed to represent himself over their protestations that he was severely mentally ill.

This post is a follow up on one I did for hometown of Greensboro and Guilford County, but since this is a state wide problem I have decided to post here also.
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My post of January 17, 2007 talked about out drug problems in the United States and here in Greensboro. I went on to explain how our War on Drugs started in 1970 by President Nixon simply isn’t working because we are trying to eliminate the producers rather than the consumers. When there is no longer a market for drugs the producers will stop on their own accord. To eliminate the consumers we need much more in the way of drug treatment and rehabilitation. And yet of the budget for the War on Drugs only 6% is spent on treatment whereas 94% is spent on interdiction trying to keep the drugs out of the country. Stupid and not working!