More Victims Face Schizophrenic Stabbing Spree Suspect

2009_01_stabbing.jpg Two more tourists who were victims of a 2006 stabbing rampage in Midtown testified against Kenny Alexis, a schizophrenic homeless man accused in the attacks. The two Canadian women in their twenties recounted the 3 a.m. morning when they headed to McDonald's for a late night snack. Through a French translator, Melanie Carrier told the court, "I put my hand to my back, and I had blood on my hand...I looked at Audrey, and she had blood. I remembered I had a lot of blood." The Post describes how "the knife had sliced into her spine, cutting through both the sheath and the membrane that protect the precious spinal cord." On Friday the jury heard from Christopher McCarthy, who had been stabbed in the heart by Alexis while on the subway. The Post says that Alexis is "arguing that he didn't do it, but if he did, he was too crazy to be responsible for his actions. "

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Only the Post would use a phrase like "precious spinal cord"

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How can a suspect who went on a stabbing spree argue his mental state, shouldn't a, I dunno, a doctor be responsible for that?

I'm sure Mommy and Daddy have hired Kenny a top-notch lawyer. Oh wait, there surely is no Daddy.

I didn't do it, but if I did, here's my book about how I was too crazy to know what I was doing.

Let's execute the bastard, and then deny we did it.

Or we can say that if we did do it we were too crazy to be responsible for our actions.

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