This case should not have gone to trial and it isn’t so much about PTSD as it is about thought-disordered psychosis.Įddie Ray Routh, released just a week earlier from apparently inadequate inpatient psychiatric treatment, was overpowered and compelled by his paranoid, delusional thinking when he killed two people. Routh killed Kyle at the Rough Creek Ranch-Lodge-Resort shooting range in Erath County, Texas on February 2, 2013. Since prosecutors didn’t seek the death penalty in the capital murder case, the 27-year-old Routh receives an automatic life sentence without parole in the deaths of Kyle and. Updated: 4:13 ET, EDDIE Ray Routh shot dead American Sniper Chris Kyle in 2013 and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. It was early 2013, and hed recently taken a job at a. The trial of Eddie Ray Routh has drawn intense interest, in part because of the blockbuster film based on former Navy SEAL Kyle’s memoir about his four tours in Iraq. Published 16:53, 25 August 2021 BST Last updated 18:06, BST Featured Image Credit: CBS This Morning Eddie Ray Routh, the man found guilty of murdering Chris Kyle and Chad. Does what you know about this condition affect your sympathy in the Stephenville capital murder trial of Eddie Ray Routh, accused in the killings of former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and his friend, Chad Littlefield? Should this case have gone to trial, or does Routh belong in mental health treatment instead? A 25-year-old former Marine, Eddie Routh had moved back to her home in Lancaster, Texas, a small, middle-class suburb just south of Dallas. Growing efforts are aimed at helping veterans with PTSD. Is PTSD on trial in the murder case of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle?Īmericans, our leaders, the military and supporting groups and organizations have learned a lot about post-traumatic stress disorder from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters.
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