Ohio Serial Killer Pleads Insanity

[XanaDUer]

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CLEVELAND — A registered sex offender accused of killing 11 women pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to all charges Thursday, a plea that will leave the legal system to decide whether a sane person can live for years with 10 bodies and a skull.

Anthony Sowell, 50, entered the plea while being arraigned by video from jail. He appeared calm, keeping his cuffed hands on his lap, as a deputy stood behind him.

Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Richard Bombik said there was no evidence that Sowell is insane.

"There seems to be a distinct pattern that he engages in and if he wants to call it madness, there's a distinct method to that madness," he said outside court. "I don't see anything in his background to suggest that he has a mental illness. It's just a, quite frankly, a psychopath."

[old mark]

1. Being psychopathic is NOT a mental illness that would legally

disable him from understanding the charges against him and participating in his own defense. He also knew what he was doing was wrong - he just enjoyed it and didn't care about anyone who he harmed.

The condition is also not treatable - there is no "cure" or medicine for it.


mark

[BlueIris]

2. Here's hoping this sets a precedent that makes it even more difficult to get off on an insanity

defense than it is right now.

God, I hate the "my Issues made me do it" excuse.