Routh's lawyers say they'll appeal his conviction. Per the Post's story, when Routh was arrested, he was asked, “You know what you did today is wrong, right?" Ultimately, though, as The Washington Post reports, his insanity plea failed because Routh says he knew that killing Kyle and Littlefield was morally wrong.
A Texas jury has found a former Marine guilty of murdering famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and Kyles friend Chad Littlefield. Michael Arambula, testified that Routh wasn't insane - saying rather that he was drunk and stoned at the time of the killings, which discredits an insanity plea. Michael Ainsworth/Dallas Morning News/AP. CNN's Martin Savidge gives details from inside the courtroom. Psychologist Dr. Randall Price disagreed, noting that the pig people were similar to a joke in an episode of Seinfeld, a show that Routh's a fan of. Eddie Ray Routh has been found guilty in the murder of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. Since prosecutors didn’t seek the death penalty in the capital murder case, the 27-year-old Routh receives an automatic life sentence without parole in the deaths of Kyle and.
EDDIE RAY ROUTH 2020 TRIAL
Mitchell Dunn, the medical expert for the defense, testified that Routh said he thought Kyle and his friend were " some kind of pig assassins, or hybrid pigs sent to kill people" the day he killed them. The trial of Eddie Ray Routh has drawn intense interest, in part because of the blockbuster film based on former Navy SEAL Kyle’s memoir about his four tours in Iraq. His defense lawyers claimed he was insane at the time of the killing. Routh is a veteran of the Iraq War who's been diagnosed with PTSD, which his lawyers say causes psychotic episodes.ĭr. Routh, 27, confessed to shooting and killing both men in 2013 at a shooting range in Texas. Updated: 9:52 ET, DEVOUT Christian Chad Littlefield died alongside American Sniper buddy Chris Kyle while 'trying to help' troubled gunman Eddie Routh. Kyle was the author of American Sniper, the Iraq war memoir that was recently turned into the Best Picture Oscar-nominated film.
A judge sentenced Eddie Ray Routh to life in prison without parole for the killing of Navy Seal Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield.
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