Psychopath In Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

Psychopath: a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior. In the short story “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a murderer who kills a man. It is told from the point of view of the murderer. The story takes place in the old man’s house, but mostly in his room. Throughout the story, the murderer brags about how precise he is in killing the man. The only thing that disturbs the murderer is that the old man has a “vulture eye. Based on the evidence presented in the 8th Amendment of the Death Penalty the main character should be released to a psychiatric facility based on the mitigating and aggravating evidence.

To begin, the murderer’s mitigating evidence proves that he should be sentenced