Faith, delusion, or excuse for Crime?

The article I chose to share this week was about a man named Brian David Mitchell who claims to be a prophet from god who calls his bed an altar, grew a long beard, and use to walk around handing out a "Declaration of Faith" to people in the streets.  Brian David Mitchell is on trial for kidnapping Elizabeth Smart while she was 14 years old and taking her across state borders to have sex.  He had her captive for over 9 months while she was missing to everyone.  Now she is 23 years old and he is on trial for his actions forcing jurors to decide whether he was actually believed he was commiting an act of god meaning he would be innocent due to insanity or was he aware of what he was actually doing and guilty?!!! The article then gives a number of other examples of when people got off due to insanity.  One example is when a women in Texas in 2001 drowned five of her children in a bathtub because she believed they were stumbling into the throes and were going to burn in the fires of enternity.  Therefore, by killing her children she believed that she would be saving them from this fate and the devil would be vanquished.  She was found NOT GUILTY by reason of insanity.  My view on the subject is that I don't care if you think your insane, I don't care what motive you had, or who your doing it for, murder is murder, bottom line.  Unless someone is attacking you and you feel your life is in danger to where you might die there is never a reason good enough to murder someone.  I don't think that anyone should be found NOT GUILTY due to insanity bad as it may sound, thats just me, hate it or love it I don't care......I think a lot of people try to use the concept bolstering we discussed in class today to make there situation seem like it was justifiable.  Like Brian David Mitchell saying he did this because he was a prophet of god and was carrying out something he would want done.  To me I dont care what you say, if you have no proof then you have no proof! Any person who commits a crime "crazy" or not, justified or not should be held up to the full extent of the law.  You have to put yourself in that person who has suffered circumstance, would you want someone who kidnapped and rapped you to get off because of insanity?  Or would you want them to uphold the law?!!!!!

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/15/on-trial-faith-delusion-or-an-excuse-for-criminal-action/?hpt=C1