>>”Prepping for an insanity defense, I suppose.”
Looks like he has a pretty good shot at it:
This document is to affirm that I Phillip Garrido have clearly demonstrated the ability to control sound with my mind and have developed a device for others to witness this phenomena. by using a sound generator to provide the sound, and a headphone amplification system, ( a device to focuc your hearing so as to increase the sensitivity of what one is listening to) I have produced a set of voices by effectively controlling the sound to pronounce words through my own mental powers.
http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/
DG
Hooboy. BTT.
By any definition Garrido is clearly insane. That doesn't mean he should be allowed to live.
There are two possibilities:
1. He will always be insane. If that is the case, then he will be a clear and present danger to the world as long as he lives anywhere in it. He should therefore be executed as a matter of societal self-defense.
2. Someday he will regain his sanity. There is very little chance of this, but it is a remote possibility. No sane man could ever live with the horror of what he has done. The only merciful thing to do is to execute him while he is still insane.
I love my dog. If my dog got rabies I would feel really bad about it, but I would still take it outside and shoot it. I don't think Garrido deserves any better treatment.