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If Elizabeth Bathory was caught today, would she be declared criminally insane by an American court of law?

Asked by Arisztid (7130points) March 23rd, 2010

I know that in today’s America she could not have committed these crimes in the first place. For this question I am stipulating that she, indeed, was able to carry out her crimes and had done so.

She was one of the most notorious serial killers in history. Here is a short article about her. This is a much longer article about her.

Serial killers often try the insanity plea and, from what I know, they do not get it. However, from everything I have read about her, she fully believed everything attributed to her.

So, two questions in one:
1) if she committed her atrocities today, would she be deemed criminally insane in an American court of law?

2) if she was determined to be criminally insane, what would her punishment be today? Would the severity of her crimes cause her sentance to be a criminal one, rather than psychatric?

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