Madness

Following on from Tucola's bit about the mentally unstable American, the telegraph published this today: "A year ago, in a very similar case, a pardon was granted to a murderer in Georgia, Alexander E. Williams IV, who had been diagnosed as suffering from "chronic paranoid delusions". He believed that the actress Sigourney Weaver was God and that she spoke to him. It was the same issue as with Singleton: whether Williams should be forcibly given drugs to make him "synthetically sane". In his case, however, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles chose mercy and decided to change his sentence from death to life imprisonment. That was the last we ever heard of Williams. So I telephoned Georgia yesterday to find out how he was. He is dead, having recently committed suicide in prison." Hmmm.