A Living Hell or a Life Saved? Attorneys for Russell Weston, a man with paranoid schizophrenia who killed two U.S. Capitol Police officers in July 1998, have fought a successful battle since to prevent his forcible medication in the federal psychiatric hospital where he has been detained since. They argue that treating his psychosis and making him competent to stand trial on charges for which he could face the death penalty if convicted is unethical and illegal. In the meanwhile, he remains tortured by his illness and, potentially dangerous, has been kept in seclusion for an unheard-of two years. But which is the greater cruelty? Washington Post