STATE CAN MAKE INMATE SANE ENOUGH TO EXECUTE

From the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/national/11DEAT.html?th):
The federal appeals court in St. Louis ruled yesterday that officials in Arkansas can force a prisoner on death row to take antipsychotic medication to make him sane enough to execute. Without the drugs, the prisoner, Charles Laverne Singleton, could not be put to death under a United States Supreme Court decision that prohibits the execution of the insane…[Judge Wollman, writing for the majority wrote] “Eligibility for execution is the only unwanted consequence of the medication.”
That’s kind of like excusing murder on the basis its only unwanted consequence is death.
Loved Playing With My Food‘s comment on this (http://blogs.salon.com/0001444/2003/02/11.html):
But can Arkansas make sane people crazy enough to live there?