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This Man Is Insane
This man is a murderer he is sane

Murder of Jerry age 89, Killed by charles age 23. Killed on Jan, 3 2005. Time of murder midnight 12:16. One man one death two ways this could go. This man is sane. He should take the death penalty he has killed a innocent man. The legal definition of insane. “Insanity is a mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality.” That means that you can't think straight or may not even think at all.

Charles had to think to be quit and how to sneak in his house every night and 12:13. He confessed that he did sneak in this man's house at midnight, “And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh so gently!” A insane man would not think
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“I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head.” He just told you what he done, he knew what he was doing the whole time. He knew that he’d half to open the door quietly and he knew that he had to be still when the old man heard hem. He also knew that he had to move slowly to get the old man.

The night that the man killed him he was so still that the man could not even see his head move. A insane person is not able to stay still for a long time and breath quietly. Charles has confessed of his death and he is guilty of murder. So you are going to let a sane man fake has insanity to get out of the death penalty. I don’t care what he done he is sane. He confessed that he thought this. “Would a madman have been so wise as this, And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously—oh, so cautiously—cautiously.”

So I have evidence that this ,man has killed a 89 year old man. He knew exactly where to hide the man and where to put the rest of his body. Someone who is insane would not think to hide the body that good.” I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.” The man knew what he was doing. He knew that if he hid it under the planks that the cops would not find it. The cops would've found it unless he told

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