Well, the snow melted off the car by the afternoon, I think tomorrow the temperature will be in the 60s, then go back to freezing.
You have probably heard the verdict in the American Sniper trial. I was riveted to the television waiting for the verdict. As the guy was undoubtedly guilty the only two verdicts were either 'guilty' or 'guilty by reason of insanity'. It just took the jury a couple of hours to bring in the guilty verdict, which means he will be in prison for the rest of his life, with no possibility of parole, and that was the verdict everyone wanted and seems to be satisfied with. The 'by reason of insanity' means he would have gone to a mental hospital and at some time in the future could be released.
Obviously he had mental health issues but didn't meet the criteria for legally insane. Just after his arrest he tried to pretend he was insane, asking if he was going to an insane asylum, but apparently no genuinely insane person would say that.
At first the reporters were referring to it as a capital murder verdict, as capital murder in Texas is two or more persons murdered in the same crime, but I was thinking it meant he would get the death sentence, and I think I read somewhere that there are more executions in Texas than anywhere else in the nation. But I suppose because of the element of insanity - even though not legally insane - they can't execute him.
Chris Kyle is - quite rightly - a major American hero at the moment, and someone said that when the other inmates of the correctional facility discover his killer is among them he is going to have a hard time. I didn't think convicted criminals were so patriotic.
So all that has been an education for me this evening.
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