Insane Persuasive Speech

Hello, sir. From your story, I believe that you have killed an elderly man. We both know that you have a disease, and I believe you may have insanity. Nevertheless, as your attorney, I know that what you have done could result in prison. In fact, some people are executed for actions similar to yours. I know that you don’t consider yourself insane. However, it will be in your best interest to plead guilty under insanity as it will lower potential jail time and prevent execution.

To prove you are insane, you must present a case. In your story, before you killed the old man,you claimed, “I heard all things from the heavens and the Earth. I heard many things in hell.” Clearly, this is an auditory hallucination, a common symptom of several mental …show more content…
During the time before the murder, he claimed that once conceived, the man’s pale blue, vulture-like eye haunted him day and night. This shows that my client was not in control of his emotions while he considered killing the man. In fact, while killing the man, he acted very sporadically, or without thought, when attacking the man. After he heard the old man screaming, he claimed, “With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room,” in which he proceeded to suffocate the old man with a bed. Obviously, my client unable to understand morality at this point, and acted instinctively, or at the moment, without premeditation. Additionally, a man who was trying to cover the screams of someone else would not yell, as that would draw more attention to a scene of murder. After the murder, from his claim, his initial thought was, “He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.” After a murder, sane people would be anxious, fearful, or show some emotion. Furthermore, they would care that they were dead. However, he did not care about anything, except the eye after murdering the man. Clearly, this is not something a normal person would