Citing the early release of a child killer that sparked local and national outrage, Kentucky lawmakers filed legislation Tuesday that would eliminate the insanity defense.
Ronald Exantus drove from Indianapolis to Versailles and killed 6-year-old Logan Tipton with a butcher knife in 2015. The jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity. However, they also found him“guilty but mentally ill” of assaulting the child’s family members.
Exantus, who admitted to the killing, was sentenced to 20 years, but released with less than half of his sentence served under the state’s mandatory re-entry supervision law…