California teen who killed to feel death sentenced to life

[techbeck]

LAYTONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A California teen who stabbed to death his friend and his friend's father during a rampage in the home that took him in was sentenced to 71 years to life in prison.

The sentencing judge said she intends for 19-year-old Talen Barton to remain in prison for the rest of his life, the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat reported (http://tinyurl.com/ngdzj97 ). Mendocino County Judge Ann Moorman said Tuesday that state prison officials will notify her if he ever becomes eligible for parole so she can argue against his release.

"I'll see to it you never see the light of day," Moorman told Barton.

"That's great," Barton said, flashing a thumb's up even though he was shackled.

Barton pleaded guilty to stabbing to death a 17-year-old friend and the friend's father in July in their Laytonville, California, home about 160 miles north of San Francisco. Barton also seriously injured two others in the house. Barton told psychologists he killed because he wanted to know what it was like to die.

Barton lived in the family's home for two years after his friend convinced his parent to take in the troubled teen.

Barton pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, the paper reported.

On the night of the attack, Barton took a 17-inch knife from the kitchen and went into the bedroom where his 17-year-old friend Teo Palmieri was sleeping. Barton placed his hand over Palmieri's mouth and slashed his throat. Barton also killed Palmieri's father.

http://news.yahoo.com/california-teen-killed-feel-death-sentenced-life-211034872.html

[FloatingFatMan]

Sounds more like he should be in a secure asylum for life, not a prison.

[DocM]

Prisons have psych units so they aren't mutually exclusive, though with his tendencies he may end up at a SuperMan facility  - 23 hour a day lockdown in a solitary cell, for the protection of others.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Sounds more like he should be in a secure asylum for life, not a prison.

That's exactly what he wants you to think!

[FloatingFatMan]

Prisons have psych units/so they aren't mutually exclusive, though with his tendencies he may end up at a Supe

Mmmhmm... Just saying, because from the sound of things, he's probably going to try to do it in jail, too... Give him life in solitary.

[DocM]

The editor saved that post before I had finished, a problem here lately. The rest covers your point.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

Barton told psychologists he killed because he wanted to know what it was like to die...Barton pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, the paper reported.

So he wasn't that keen to know what it's like, then... 

[techbeck]

So he wasn't that keen to know what it's like, then... 

Probably thought he could know how it was like by watching someone else die.

[DocM]

Odds are he has tortured or killed animals before. If he did then it's likely he was a serial killer in training and got caught.