Homeowner caught on tape "finishing off" teen burglars. Murder or self defense?

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67. His defense is not claiming dementia or any other organic brain disorder.

Which leads me to believe they don't apply here. Nor are they claiming terrorism. Terrorism is a weighty word in the legal world, as I'm sure you know. The defense claims there was evidence the male broke into his home before and the defendant was so scared he took matters into his own hands. None of this explains why he chose not to call the police, or involve them until long after the fact. He planned their demise and then carried it out, is what the evidence shows. I'm allowing it as a fact that the male was involved in previous break-ins, even though I don't know it for sure, since he never had a trial and subsequent chance to defend himself.

What he (the defendant) did was still wrong. You cannot lay in wait planning to, and then act on your plans, to take other people's lives. He was not their judge, jury and executioner, simply because he was their alleged theft victim. Yet that's the roll he appears to have taken on himself. That isn't how our judicial system is designed to work. He's the one who is going to have to answer for his heinous actions in court. At least he has the luxury of having a trial to defend himself.