RPTS Counseling Prof Says Accepting a Plea of Insanity from Accused Police Killer Poplawski Would Be Insane
PITTSBURGH, June 15 /
Christian Newswire/ -- "Entertaining the insanity plea is cultural insanity," says Director of the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary's Biblical Counseling Institute [see
www.rpts.edu], Dr. George C. Scipione, in light of news today that Richard Poplawski, who is accused of killing three Pittsburgh police officers on April 4, is already describing himself as mentally ill and complaining about not receiving psychiatric treatment during his incarceration according to a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
"I fear that describing himself as mentally ill now points to what will likely be an insanity plea come trial time, and it would be insane for it to be entertained."
Available for interview, Dr. Scipione says "admitting the insanity plea for perpetrators is cultural insanity, because it makes the physical life of the murderer more significant than that of the victim and the victim's family. The blood of murdered people cries out for justice like the blood of Able against Cain, and we as a culture must deal with it.
"Society's allowance of the insanity plea is a suicidal rejection of the concepts of absolute moral truth and accountability and therefore justice also. It lowers man to the status of an evolutionary animal, makes murder simply a matter of the survival of the fittest, and eliminates the possibility of justice."
