How the Medicate-to-Execute Scheme Undermines Individual Liberty, Offends Societal Norms, and Violat

As of January 2013, there are a total of 3,125 inmates on death row in the United States.²  It is estimated that five to ten percent of all inmates on death row suffer from mental illness.³ In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Ford v. Wainwright, that it is unconstitutional to execute the insane.⁴ What about the severely mentally ill individual whose symptoms do not, at the moment of the competency determination, indicate that the individual is “floridly psychotic”?