Advantages Of The Insanity Plea

To be considered insane and mentally unstable, I believe a criminal defendant must be unconsciously aware of their actions and there should be no prior intentional plan planned out to commit a crime or felony. However in some cases, criminal defendant has used the insanity plea as a defense, in which they have thought out and did intend on executing the crime as a result of mental illness. Even though some people are right about abolishing this legal defense because some defendant may take this as an advantage and hopefully be declared as not guilty, I still believe that the insanity plea is still an essential part of a rational criminal justice system. According to Psychology Today, the insanity plea has been used less than 1% of all the
criminal cases in the U.S and less than 25% of these insanity plea were deemed successful. Many people would argue that since the success rate for an insanity plea is low, it should be abolish from the criminal justice system as a legal defense. I can see where they're coming from and their point of view, but I believe that even though the success rate isn't relatively high, we as the justice system should still take the insanity plea into consideration. We don't want people to be wrongly accused of being guilty for something that is out of their control. We should inspect and make sure with every insanity plea case that the criminal defendant is truly mental unstable with proper evidence.