Absolutely. Insanity would be considered in the medical sense in a court room, not in a societies preconceived notion of what insanity means. Webster defines i

Absolutely. Insanity would be considered in the medical sense in a court room, not in a societies preconceived notion of what insanity means. Webster defines it as, "a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as paranoid schizophrenia)". This means that they concluded that he committed the crime in a non disordered state, and his mental health did not point to any particular disorder. Just because someone holds extremely radical views (you mentioned religion, politics can also be included) doesn't mean someone is insane. However, I'm sure it was a very close call.