How can he be only “calculating and devious” and “evil”? At two years old he threw a four month old in a swimming pool, according to the mother of the baby.
All of it is evil, but psychotics display the same behaviors and are successfully treated everyday to hold themselves together.
****All of it is evil, but psychotics display the same behaviors and are successfully treated everyday to hold themselves together
Yet we have to deal with the unsuccessfully treated, because they are on unsuccessful drugs, or they are not taking them.
They need to be monitored in a facility(locked away) until the drugs are proven to work on them.
Calculating, devious and evil are not limiting characteristics. Some psychotics ‘bloom’ after adolescence as they appeared normal throughout childhood.
The fact that he posted nearly 10 months ago about duplicating the Texas Tower sniper and 3 months ago regarding becoming a professional school shooter shows deliberation and extensive premeditation. And he ordered all his ‘tools to murder’ and rehearsed his plans to kill. Typically, South Florida criminal juries are very reluctant to accept insanity defenses.
Insanity under Florida criminal law, means that due to a mental infirmity, disease or defect the accused did not know what he/she was doing or its consequences, or, although he/she knew what he/she was doing, but did not know it was wrong. If the defendant believed what he/she was doing was morally right, then he/she is not insane, if he/she was aware that it violated societal standards or knew it was against the law.
Cruz knew that he was murdering and that people would die. He knew murdering is wrong and he would go to prison