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John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, is to be released from a psychiatric hospital next month after 35 years.
Mr Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981.
Mr Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity but was sent for treatment to a Washington hospital.
Source: BBC News
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley_Jr.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/758283971092443136
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(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday July 28 2016, @08:18AM
Brady died in 2014. Had Hinckley been killed in 1991 as proposed, his victim would have still been alive. The U.S. does have the death penalty, but currently it isn't exacted for attempted murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_v._Louisiana [wikipedia.org]