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Their opportunities. >> were good down here, serge. >> the violent attack is the latest incident in a life that has tragically unraveled since burden worked his way up to the rank of sergeant in the marine corps. >> during high school, i was good in wrestling, but my grades wasnt good enough to go to college, so i decided to go into the marine corps. i went to parris island for boot camp and it was fine from there on in. the base is like a little city and its like we got in our own family and th...

Slaughter, they have got to be mentally unstable, i mean, normal people who dont have a mental health issue simply dont do that or am i wrong? is there just a state of pure evil? can you do it without being mentally unstable? >> i get asked that all the time on the stand. dr. amador isnt everybody that kills somebody mentally unstable? no. the majority of people dont kill people. look, in this case, something is different. i think maybe 100 years from now well see something different in the brai...

Aside the conservative paradigm of having the government as little involved as possible and the ramifications of having the state able to take a citizens life. beyond that, just fiscally it doesnt make sense to have a death penalty. >> absolutely. there is a great argument for that. i think what youre seeing in states like florida is an effort to sort of test the limits of the supreme court, the constitutional standard they set on mental competency. you are seeing them sort of push the energy an...

Try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec® love the air. last night around 6:00 p.m., despite pleas from the american bar association and the national alliance on mental illness to grant a stay of execution and despite the fact that the execution of the mentally insane is unconstitutional, the state of florida executed john ferguson. ferguson was convicted of murdering eight people ...

Phenomenon that occurs in people with religious delusions. >> she loved her children, and the message she was getting from the tv, from her religion was that she was a bad person. she was satan. >> once she became psychotic, it tied in with her religious beliefs at the time. >> at least some of those beliefs seemed to have been influenced by the writings of michael woroniecki, the preacher rusty and ya once followed. >> the one that stands out in my mind most is a pamphlet that showed a mother a...

Was inevitable. almost overnight andrea yates became a household name and a condition called postpartum psychosis a hotly contested topic. >> it is not the same as the baby blues, which are very common. postpartum psychosis is about 1 case in 1,000 births. often a woman is very psychotic, hallucinations, delusions, confused, usually so severe, it requires hospitalization. >> on june 20th, 2001, andrea yates called police to her home, showed them the bodies of her drowned children. noah, 7, john,...

But an international case. >> given the circumstances, it was inevitable. almost overnight andrea yates became a household name and a condition called postpartum psychosis a hotly contested topic. >> it is not the same as the baby blues, which are very common. postpartum psychosis is about 1 case in 1,000 births. often a woman is very psychotic, hallucinations, delusions, confused, usually so severe, it requires hospitalization. >> on june 20th, 2001, andrea yates called police to her home, show...

Appointment on june 20th, 2001, andrea yates drowned her children one by one and then patiently waited to be arrested. >> when i saw her in the jail that first time, i would ask her questions, and she would answer it in nonsense. she heard the tv talking to her, and she was picking her scalp, which i saw her do later to learn that the belief was that the number 666 had been branded into her scalp. >> as irrational as andreas symptoms sounded, at least one expert had a scientific term for her sea...

>> given the circumstances, it was inevitable. almost overnight andrea yates became a household name and a condition called postpartum psychosis a hotly contested topic. >> it is not the same as the baby blues, which are very common. postpartum psychosis is about 1 case in 1,000 births. often a woman is very psychotic, hallucinations, delusions, confused, usually so severe, it requires hospitalization. >> on june 20th, 2001, andrea yates called police to her home, showed them the bodies of her d...

He didnt -- he didnt want to think a ibout asked him about t change he said he just didnt want to deal with it. it was something he didnt want to think about. i cant presume what his reasons actually were. >> yeah. >> however, what he did say was that, you know, i just dont want to deal with that. i guess changing his name was a way of moving on. >> back to 1967. he confessed that night. you quote in your piece, this texas ranger asks him did you kill your parents, son. with only a brief hesitat...