By IULIA FILIP
On January 12, 1998, Andrew Brannan was driving his truck at 98 miles an hour on a country road near his Dublin, Georgia, home when he was pulled over by Deputy Kyle Dinkheller.
Brannan, a white-haired, 66-year-old man, got out of his truck, shouted profanities, and danced around, yelling, “Here I am, here I am … [s]hoot me. ” He then attacked the deputy and a gunfight ensued, in which Brannan shot Dinkheller nine times with a rifle.
Video footage from the deputy’s dashboard camera inflamed public opinion. Dinkheller was 22 years old and married, with one child and another baby on the way. Brannan received a death sentence and, on January 13, became the first person executed in 2015.
But Joseph Loveland, an Atlanta-based attorney who tried to commute Brannan’s sentence to life imprisonment without parole, says the jury and sentencing judge never heard the whole story.
“Every doctor who had examined Andrew confirmed that he was suffering for years before the crime from significant
PTSD that was directly related to his service in Vietnam, and also suffered from bipolar disorder,” Loveland said in an interview. “The two conditions interacted, leading to the crime he committed.”
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YES!!! THEY SHOULD BE EXEMPT FROM THE DEATH PENALTY, THEY MAY HAVE TBI, NUMEROUS CONCUSSIONS, GIVE THE DEFENSE LAWYER TIME TO GET ALL OF THE MEDICAL RECORDS FROM SHRINKS, PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR, NEUROLOGISTS AND WHO EVER ELSE IS INVOLVED IN TREATING THIS VET, LET THE LAWYER TALK TO HIS/HER CLIENT GET THE VETS SIDE OF THE STORY. MY GOD PEOPLE THESE PEOPLE SERVED THEIR COUNTRY AND PROTECTED OUR FREEDOMS!!!
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