Originally Posted by Derek S

No. Mind you my personal opinion is someone who murders someone to death isn't quite sane and I've have no qualms about them being put to death (after the relevant trials obviously)

At the risk of sounding callous he was a fruitloop. We'll never know if he was in the harmless eccentric side of fruitloopery or the howling at the moon and drinking paint side.
If he survived for 53 years without being diagnosed with any form of mental illness I'm tempted to believe the extent of the problems might have been exaggerated a little in an attempt to get a reduction in sentence.