Diagnosing Homicidal Mania: Forensic Psychiatry and the Purposeless Murder
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Dear Mr. Shaw—I received your letter on last Tuesday. I think I will get hung, but I do not care as long as I get a good breakfast before they hang me. If they do not hang me I think I will commit suicide. That will do just as well. I will strangle myself. I hope you are well. I go up on Monday to the Old Bailey to be tried, I hope you will be there. I think they will sentence me to die. If they do I will call all the witnesses liars. I remain
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دوره 54 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010