Argument analysis: A narrow victory possible for death-row inmate with dementia?

It has become far too costly—30 years on the row? Really?

There are too many arguments that it violates the Constitution’s freedom from cruel & unusual punishment as granted in the Eighth Amendment.

And instances of deteriorating physical &, in the case of dementia, mental health, that limit a state’s ability to carry out the penalty. Don’t the condemned have to be in sound physical & mental health to receive the penalty?

It’s time for the penalty to go.

At this point, this guy is probably too far gone to be suffering in the manner you speak of. He can’t even use his toilet properly without soiling himself.

And your opinion of his current state as it relates to death row is what?

I would overturn his death penalty in light of his mental state.

Years ago a real life news story came up on this board about how police got a DNA match in a series of rapes and murder but it matched a set of identical twins. Both denied doing it. Surviving victims of the rapes were not able to tell which one of the two it was. Presumably one was innocent as there was nothing to indicate they did it together. I was shocked at how many here argued that it was okay to lock both of the twins up even though one was likely innocent.