Argument Against Pluto Insane

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Today you are here to decide whether the defendant presented is insane. This man was imprisoned for murdering his wife. This was after killing his first cat and aiming to kill his second. Why kill so many innocent lives? After hearing his significant story, many of you must be confused. You may believe he is indeed insane while others may think he pretending to be crazy in order to get out of his death penalty. My job here is to prove that he is faking it all. Therefore, he deserves to die for his horrible actions.
It may seem as if he cannot distinguish fantasy from reality and that he has impulsive behavior, but that can all be explained. If you turn to the second page of Exhibit A, you’ll see that in the second paragraph he explains how his “temperament and character-- through the instrumentality of Fiend
When Pluto upset his owner for ignoring him, the defendant cut out his eye. Over the weeks that has taken for the cat’s eye to recover, the defendant kept getting the urge to finish what he started doing to the cat and end its life once and for all. You must think that he is insane for wanting to kill a cat so harshly, but he knew what he wanted was utterly wrong. He even mentions that he “hung it because [he] knew that in so doing [he] was committing a sin.” One of the main reasons that he hanged the cat was being he wanted to do the wrong doing. Another example that shows that he was in the right of his mind is that when he grew a hatred for his second cat, he restrained himself from killing it. In the fourth paragraph in the fourth page of Exhibit A, he claims, “I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it.” The reason he did not abuse the second cat was because he didn’t want to commit another sin. The fact is that he knew it was