Texas' longest serving death row inmate has sentence tossed (for mental illness) – What now, release him or call this more systemic racism? ?

Article: https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/texas-longest...

Will the U.S. ever address this injustice? I don’t mean death sentences for the mentally ill. I do mean failing to face the fact that a lack of any national policy mandating treatment continues to result in innocent people being harmed or murdered by hair-trigger mental illness allowed to freely walk the streets.

Estimates are that 15-20 percent of the 1.5 million people incarcerated in state and county facilities suffer serious mental illness. Given those figures are based on willing study participants, some say estimates are very low. How many remain on the streets? Why is the only solution proposed for this over the last few decades to eliminate easy access to firearms? How does this prevent the violent crime/murder not involving firearms? How does this help those afflicted with mental illness? Why is it acceptable that if guns finally are taken off the streets, hundreds of thousands (or more) of mentally ill criminals will remain? Who will be blamed for violent crime then? ‘Former’ gun owners?

Sorry to interrupt your day, folks. You can go back to ignoring this problem for a few more decades, but this dirty statistic will step into the light over and over until there are no more rugs to sweep it under. This is a bi-partisan problem requiring a bi-partisan solution.

Start your own study here: https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/evidence-a...