The Latest: Death sentence for father who killed his 5 kids

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37. Student in criminology and forensic psychology. It takes some time to choke anyone to death,

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even with a ligature. I don’t want to be graphic as to what you’d have to be able to block out or enjoy to not stop from completing the act.
I am opining that he is a sociopath. Haggard’s song is about a more spontaneous crime of passion “Insane with rage” is the key as is “my darling.” As with most of the oldie, rather sexist, country Western songs, the woman has cheated, incurring his utter wrath.
It could be, however, that this murderer had a neuro-biological disorder, was hallucinating, paranoid. Although his insanity plea was rejected, legal insanity is not working with the same
criteria as psychiatry does.
Tattoos of his children, the most seemingly loving behavior towards one’s children and wife, do not preclude brutally murdering them because they stand in the way, in the murderer’s mind, of something the murderer desires. Such was the case with Chris Watts and Susan Smith. They had fallen “in love.” Up to that time they doted on their children.
If he was mentally ill, could be he will feel remorse.
Susan Smith, who meets the criteria for sociopath, did say she missed her children and hoped she and hubby could get together and have more. She liked being a mother.