DEUT1073 Every life valuable is equally inviolable, including that of criminals, prisoners and defectives. In the title to life and its value, being infinite, there can be no distinction whatever between one person and another, whether innocent or guilty (except possibly persons under final sentence of death) (See Orah Hayyim, Mishnah Berurah, Bi'ur Halakhah, 329:4), whether healthy or crippled, demented and terminally afflicted. Thus, even a person's inviolability after death and his rights to dignity are decreed in the Bible specifically in relation to capital criminals, treated like everyone else "in the image of God" [this verse and Nahmanides a.l.; see also Hullin 11b]. Insane persons can sue for injuries received, even though they cannot be sued for inflicting them because of their legal incompetence. (Bava Kamma 8:4) The saving of physically or mentally defective persons sets aside all laws in the same way as the saving of normal people (See Orah Hayyim, Mishnah Berurah, Bi'ur Halakhah, 329:4).