Some scholars advocate eliminating the insanity defense and ...

[brutforce]

Some scholars advocate eliminating the insanity defense and replacing it with a test to assess the presence or absence of a culpable ________ state in a defendant who is thought to be suffering from mental disease or defect.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 2

________ capacity is a defense based on claims of a mental condition, which may be insufficient to exonerate a defendant of guilt but that may be relevant to specific mental elements of certain crimes or degrees of crime.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

[mcarey591]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: mental

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Diminished

[brutforce]

Great answer, keep it coming

[peter]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it