A proposal to let the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan go on weeks-long visits to his mother's home and live there eventually is "premature and ill conceived," government attorneys said Friday in a court document.
John Hinckley, who was found by a jury to be insane at the time of the 1981 shooting, has spent the last three decades largely confined to a Washington mental hospital. In recent years, however, he has been allowed increasing amounts of time outside the facility including multi-day visits with his family.
Well I don't exactly get the title of the thread, but he is alive because we have a huge percentage of people who think that people like him can be rehabilitated.
