To tell the truth, I even came close to having a nervous breakdown from it. But I really feel that it is the responsibility of the mother who has a child to see the job of raising it through to the end. I don't think any mother has the right to take away her child's life. . Benjamin Franz . People with schizophrenia really do believe strange things, like there are global conspiracies to control their thoughts via radio waves beamed into their heads, or other paranoid things.
Punishment is to deter criminal behavior.
The criminally insane can't be deterred that way. It should just be to protect society from the criminally insane. And, yes, this means that if the condition is cured or successfully treated they should be returned to society. It is actually a very rare defense. People would rather be thought of as evil than crazy. . .