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In page Thomas Szasz:

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Szasz believed that testimony about the mental competence of a defendant should not be admissible in trials. Szasz compared psychiatric testimony in court to religious testimony, suggesting that both lack empirical grounding.[citation needed] Szasz argued that the insanity defense was a legal tactic invented to circumvent the punishments of the church, which at the time included confiscation of the property of those who committed suicide, often leaving widows and orphans destitute. Only an insane person would do such a thing to his widow and children, it was successfully argued. This is legal mercy masquerading as medicine, according to Szasz.[1]