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I'm reminded of an apochryphal story from the Navy. Two SPs (Shore Patrol) escorted a sailor into the OOD (Officer of the Day's) office. The OOD observed the 3 and asked the senior SP, "What's this?" The enlisted man replied, "We caught a thief, sir." The OOD looked the prisoner over for a moment, then shook his head. "No", he said, "doesn't look like a thief to me." The two SPs took the man outside and 10 minutes later returned with the same prisoner, beaten, bloody and bruised. The OOD observed the 3 and asked the senior SP, "What's this?" The enlisted man replied, "We caught a thief, sir." The OOD looked the prisoner over for a moment, then nodded. "Yep", he said, "it looks like you did."

Sounds like the child molester got what he deserved. The DA needs to let this one go and thank the lawyer for saving other children from suffering the same fate.

The guy has to include some sort of insanity defense. The fact that his daughter was molested (let us assume for the purpose of argument here that she was) is probably not legal justification for killing the guy. If the fact that the deceased molested the girl is not legal justification the trial judge will not allow the jury to hear any evidence about it. On the other hand, if this guy puts up some insanity defense his side can tell the jury about the thing that made him insane.

I have some real doubts about whether anyone is ever "temporarily insane", but I believe that it is a part of criminal law for this type of situation. Here the guy got just what he had coming to him, society cannot stand an explicit law that says we get to kill folks who have it coming, but temporary insanity lets that concept in through the back door.