The Trial of Ronald Taylor

Taylor – a black man accused of killing three men including Kroll and wounding two others because of the color of their skin – sat emotionless in the courtroom, surrounded by crying spectators and jurors.

Taylor’s aloof behavior is characteristic of paranoid schizophrenia, his attorneys argued while trying to convince the jury to spare his life.

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The Trial of Richard Baumhammers

Baumhammers suffered from delusional disorder of the persecutional type which, according to his defense attorneys, drove him to murder five people and paralyze another on April 28, 2000. Baumhammers had been treated for mental illness since 1993, and had voluntarily admitted himself to a psychiatric ward at least once, according to lawyer Lee Rothman in an article in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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