Фанат Black Label Society, называющий себя слугой Люцифера и членом одноименной рок-группе секты, убил медсестру хосписа, после задержания заявив, что также планировал убить Обаму. Глава BLS, бывший музыкант Оззи Осборна Закк Уайлд до любопытного скуп в комментариях на случившееся.

 Man Charged With Murder Claims He Was Involved With BLACK LABEL SOCIETY 'Cult' - Dec. 23, 2011

According to Argus Leader, the convicted felon who confessed to slashing the throat of a 75-year-old South Dakota hospice nurse claimed that he became involved with a "cult" called the "Black Label Society," which he said was founded by Zakk Wylde, who fronts a band of the same name. 

James McVay, 41, is charged with first-degree murder and burglary in the stabbing death of Maybelle Schein. 

McVay said he killed Schein in her bed less than 48 hours after being released into a minimum security community transition program June 30. 

He later told detectives and Wisconsin television reporters that he killed the woman and stole her car as part of a plot to steal and kill his way to Washington, D.C., to assassinate President Obama. 

During a July 2011 jailhouse interview, McVay told WKOW that he cooked up a presidential assassination plot while in solitary confinement in Sioux Falls, where he "sat with nothing but a radio and my own hallucinations." 

He stayed in solitary confinement up until the day he was released, and in that month he says he made plans to kill the President. 

In a letter to the Argus Leader sent earlier this year, McVay wrote, "Within 36 hours of my arrival at Unit C once again, I was thoroughly intoxicated on dextromethorphan, and had literally pledged my allegiance to Lucifer as I sat under the bridge by Sertoma Park listening to Zak Wild (sic) … waiting for my instructions from on high." Read more from Argus Leader. 

**UPDATE**: After this story was first published on BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Zakk Wylde tweeted a link to the article with the accompanying message, "Please do not RT or comment - Black Label Society is a Rock Band - no further comment."

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=167582

Маквей объявил себя виновным по предъявленному обвинению и одновременно сумасшедшим, после чего суд по англосаксонской правовой системе должен автоматически перейти к приговору. Последнее найденное мной сообщение о МакВее - от июня с.г., когда его адвокаты старались упредить ожидаемый приговор, доказывая, что сумасшедший не может быть приговорен к смертной казни в Южной Дакоте.

James McVay lawyers: No death penaltyState, U.S. laws don't allow executions of mentally ill inmates
12:03 AM, Jun 15, 2012  

Defense lawyers for a confessed killer say South Dakota law doesn’t allow for the execution of a mentally ill inmate.  

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Among a series of recent motions filed in advance of his sentence hearing is one that claims an execution would be cruel and unusual because of his mental illness and is not allowed under South Dakota law.  

The case raises thorny questions about the appropriate application of the death penalty for those diagnosed with mental illness, a term broad enough to include illness as serious as debilitating schizophrenia and as mild as depression.  

No one who’s pleaded guilty but mentally ill in South Dakota has been sentenced to die, but prosecutors think a jury ought to decide the appropriate punishment.  

In a “motion to preclude a pre-sentence hearing,” McVay’s public defenders say a jury hearing on a death sentence is specifically allowed only if a person is found guilty of murder by a separate jury or pleads guilty voluntarily.  

Someone who pleads “guilty but mentally ill” in South Dakota must be sentenced by a judge, they say.  

“The only sentence that can be imposed by a court (judge) under South Dakota law and the United States Constitution, absent a waiver of a right of trial by jury, which James McVay has not done, is life without parole,” the brief states.  

The lawyers also say that of the states that both allow the death penalty and explicitly define the parameters of “guilty but mentally ill” as a plea, only four have issued death sentences to defendants who made such a plea. 

http://www.argusleader.com/article/20120615/NEWS/306150024/James-McVay-lawyers-No-death-penalty?nclick_check=1

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