It is still pretty bad. When you look up old famous crimes, they're usually in there basically for life. Leaving aside cases like the 'I don't like Mondays' gir

It is still pretty bad. When you look up old famous crimes, they're usually in there basically for life. Leaving aside cases like the 'I don't like Mondays' girl (44 years and still in there; temporal lobe lesion, possible sociopathy) or the pre-Columbine shooting you probably don't remember recently profiled in NYer (paranoid schizophrenia; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/what-happens-to-a-school-shooters-sister https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/what-happens-t... ) where they had regular guilty pleas, even someone like Reagan's shooter only just got out a few years ago after his family lobbied & paid a fortune for decades. As my old professor liked to say, you had to be crazy to do an insanity defense, because usually you'd be worse off if you won that defense than if you lost another defense.