“There have to be reasons. Just a normal person doesn’t walk down the street and start wanting to kill people,” he said. “One of the things that happens when I start working with a client, and the things we do with a jury, is called humanizing. We show them it’s not just this monster. You’ve got to start showing how they were raised, the problems that came up, if they had fetal alcohol syndrome. It’s sure not their fault if their mother was drinking John Barleycorn while they were in the womb. That doesn’t excuse them; that doesn’t get them off. That doesn’t send them home.”
