Guilty By Reason Of Insanity

by Dorothy Otnow Lewis

After all, at that time, in other states like Indiana, children as young as thirteen years of age could be tried and sentenced to death.

The nuns, who at first attributed Sister Catherine’s unexpected demise to a heart attack, and we doctors, who at first attributed Johnny’s behaviors to a combination of psychosis, brain damage, and batterings by some less than nurturing stepfathers, were doing exactly what we all do every day of our lives: we see what we expect to see.

Oh this happens so often, that we see what we expect to see. That's why people's opinions differ even if the matter is the same and the picture two people are looking at is the same...

They would learn that serial killers are not born, they are made.