Casey Anthony Tries To Plea Incompetence

It is no secret that throughout history plenty of people who commit serious crimes try to plea insanity or some form of medical disorder. Doing so, they are able to get an easier sentence for example, an insane asylum which they rather over prison anyday. Although they do try this it often does not work which i feel it should’nt work when the crime is severe enough. I do feel like some people are mentally unstable and cannot function in a “normal” society. I do however feel like in this case of casey anthony the plea should have never even been up for consideration. She was accused of killing her two year daughter and during her deliberation  with her lawyer they brought up the fact that she could plea mental incompetence but after 3 psychologist examined her they found that she was indeed competent. This shows the kind of crimes that people try to get away with by pleading to be “insane”. Im not saying that no one is incompetent but i feel like people use that too much. This is a big problem with medicalizing deviance. Deviance is just that, an individual go against the “norm” and rules of society for either their own gain or their personal pleasure which either should not be backed by science. Understandably we have to be sure that we arent throwing the wrong people in jail (witch hunt) but we should not support criminals by saying they have something medically wrong with them.