The insanity defense and incompetency rulings are being rampantly abused by defense attorneys and soft-on-crime judges, making a mockery of the criminal justice system and the victims of crime in the process.

The case of Lindsay Clancy brought a renewed focus on this issue. Clancy murdered her three children by strangulation and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming postpartum psychosis. The claim itself is dubious, given that Clancy deliberately strangled each of her three children to death over a span of several minutes after deliberately sending and keeping her husband out of the house on errands. Clancy claimed to have killed her children because she heard a voice tell her to do so, and yet has not claimed to hear that voice before or since despite her alleged history of mental turmoil.