Research Paper On Glen Race

Glen Race lived a decent life all the way until entering adulthood. Starting his second year in university, his mental health was clearly plummeting. After a trip Race took to Taipei, reports suggested that drug consumption was evident and active in Race’s life. It is common knowledge that drug consumption can trigger mental illness such as schizophrenia in certain individuals. The years that followed this tragic event involved mysterious behaviour with Rice’s daily life, and the eventual assassination of three men. Glen Race successfully fulfilled beyond reasonable doubt that he was not criminally responsible, due to the fact that Race’s mens rea does not parallel that of a sane murderer’s, and his extensive history with delusional stories

Race would have, without a doubt, gone to prison for first and second-degree murder has he not been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Even though Glen’s actus reus was plain and simple, to kill these men, it’s safe to say his mens rea does not intersect accordingly. Glen Race, ever since he came back home from that trip from Taipei and had experimented with drugs, he became enveloped in this idea that he was a God like entity whose sole mission on Earth was to kill vampire demons. These out-of-reality ideas of his can be traced back up five to six years before the murders ever took place. As Mr. Race’s untreated schizophrenia progressed so did his psychotic beliefs of his mission on earth. At the time of the murder, Glen believed he was fulfilling the demands of a God by committing this crime, making his mens rea more complex than a normal killer. Glen is quoted in an interview with Dr. Hucker after being

Race decided to play the not criminally responsible card in order to avoid prison time, he actually is dealing with a serious mental illness. In 2001, according to a psychiatric assessment he received, Mr. Rice was found severely depressed with psychotic features to go along with. It wasn’t only until one month later, Mr. Race’s treating physician assessed that he suffered of a “schizophreniform illness” due to the fact that he would isolate himself, starve himself to the point where he lost forty pounds in a couple of weeks. After escaping from the hospital and being found living in a dumpster, treatment had to be given against his will in order to help stabilize his actions. After many violent confrontations with his parents, and the numerous amounts of strange behaviour Race was exhibiting, he was finally diagnosed with “schizophrenia disorganized type”, about two years before the murders ever took place. After this, Glen was admitted to hospitals twice more on accounts of strange behaviour, and was let go because he showed signs of improvement. The amount of times Glen Race was submitted into hospitals because of his strange behaviour indicates that he is clearly suffering from a mental disease, and lives in an alternate reality than all the mentally healthy humans. Mr. Race was so fixated on his ideas that it was only a matter of time before he went and committed murder because of the voices he would hear in his head. The only guilty individual in