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Insanity Problem 1 - Definition
In 1953 the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment suggested that the M'Naughten rules should be extended to those D who suffered irresistible impulses, so that they could be declared legally insane. "was incapable from preventing himself from committing the offence."
However the gov did not go with this defence but added the partial defence of diminished responsibility to murder instead.
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