A jury on Thursday found the gunman who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper criminally responsible for his actions, rejecting defence lawyers’ mental illness arguments.
The jury needed less than two hours to find that Jarrod Ramos could understand the criminality of his actions and conform his conduct to the requirements of the law when he attacked the Capital Gazette newsroom in 2018.
The verdict means Ramos, 41, will be sentenced to prison, not a maximum-security mental health facility, for one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in the US. Prosecutors are seeking five life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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