(The Center Square) – Florida’s attorney general on Tuesday called for the state to consider placing limits on the use of the insanity defense after a Kentucky parolee who killed a 6-year-old was found living near a school in Marion County.
“The facts of this case are tragic,” Attorney General James Uthmeier said at a news conference. “A 6-year-old was brutally stabbed in his sleep and killed. What’s even more tragic is that this guy was released after only seven years behind bars.”
Ronald Exantus, 42, was found not guilty by reason of insanity on the murder charge and was convicted instead of assault charges, receiving a lesser sentence, Uthmeier said…