Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is vowing to reform the state’s insanity defense after a man who stabbed a six-year-old child more than 20 times to death was acquitted of capital murder by reason of insanity by a Kentucky jury in 2018.
“Alleging that you can’t tell right from wrong should not exonerate you from a violent crime,” Uthmeier said. “Moral incompacity should only be used during sentencing to determine if someone should spend the rest of their life in prison, or in a high-security hospital. We cannot allow what happened in Kentucky to ever occur in Florida.”
The insanity defense should never enable a brutal child killer to walk free after just 7 years…