[He notices, and there's a slight hesitation. But hell, anyone who knew anything about current events in his world knew about the trial. It was nationwide coverage. America's national monster, on trial. ]

They killed kids. They brought goddam drugs into the country, into my goddam city. It's not like I killed goddam altarboys. I killed the people the cops were too scared or too corrupt to go after.

[In his mind: sane. ]