Slate MagazineThe Supreme Court, an Institution Marred by Lunacy, Debates Psychiatric Assessments for OthersSlate MagazineIt's strange being back in this place, and stranger still to hear them debate lunacy. By Dahlia Lithwick. James Edmund McWilliams Jr. is on death row for the 1984 rape and murder of a convenience store clerk in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.