I suppose it is but I mean that society wouldn’t allow it. It’s one thing to lose all bearing and do something accidentally but what’s to stop it from happening again? APs are not a magic bullet you can relapse even with a perfect medication regimen unfortunately. My understanding is that mental illness alone rarely leads to this outcome, it’s typically a combination of conditions that lead to violence often illegal drug use is involved.

Of course there are different societal opinions of what jail is supposed to do, rehabilitation to allow for reform or warehousing to keep society protected from the criminal. In the US it’s primarily warehousing. Some of the mass shooters have been found to have problems such as tumors in their amygdala’s so it’s not really their fault but without surgical options they are likely to try again. So even thought they have a biological issue they must be warehoused to protect society.