Jared Loughner to be forced to take anti-psychotic medication
July 27, 2011
(CNN) — Bizarre and suicidal actions of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner have pushed a federal appeals panel to reverse an earlier decision and allow authorities to force him to take anti-psychotic medication.
The three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco had ruled on July 12 that Loughner can refuse anti-psychotic medication.
But since that ruling, Loughner, who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, has deteriorated, prosecutors said.
He’s had screaming and crying fits that last hours, he has harmed himself and claims that the radio was inserting thoughts into his head, prosecutors said.
Loughner has also expressed “regret for the circumstances that led to his arrest,” prosecutors wrote in court documents.
When asked whether he had thoughts of harming himself, Loughner said: “I want to die. Give me the injection. Kill me now,” court documents said.
Article: CNN
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