I teach a whole course on that at law school. We use some of the cases I've worked on and some that I haven't that are still unfolding. When you have someone with an intellectual disability who asks someone to please stop her being beaten up regularly and the guy says to give him $100 and he'll do it and he does it and she is convicted of first-degree murder, I do think that's a problem. Almost everybody who has dealt with that woman believes it's a problem. Yet she serves a sentence for first-degree murder because she said yes, she did say that. She didn't understand the implications, that it amounted to a contract killing, and that's why she is serving a sentence for first-degree murder.
On November 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.