May criminal defendants be forced to take medication that will make them competent to stand trial if doing so will likely result in their execution?
a. No. That would clearly violate their constitutional rights
b. Yes. If medication is likely to improve the defendant's mental condition, both the state and the defendant should be entitled to have the case tried.
c. No. Such actions would not be in the best interests of the defendant.
d. Perhaps. In 2003 the Supreme Court put strict limits on involuntarily medicating mentally ill defendants to make them competent to stand trial.
d
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