FILE - This June 28, 2018, record photograph provided by the Anne Arundel Police shows Jarrod Ramos successful Annapolis, Md. Ramos, who killed 5 radical astatine a Maryland paper much than 3 years earlier, is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, for 1 of the deadliest attacks connected journalists successful U.S. history. (Anne Arundel Police via AP, File)

FILE - This June 28, 2018, record photograph provided by the Anne Arundel Police shows Jarrod Ramos successful Annapolis, Md. Ramos, who killed 5 radical astatine a Maryland paper much than 3 years earlier, is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, for 1 of the deadliest attacks connected journalists successful U.S. history. (Anne Arundel Police via AP, File)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – A antheral who killed 5 radical astatine a Maryland paper much than 3 years agone is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected Tuesday for 1 of the deadliest attacks connected journalists successful U.S. history.

Prosecutors are seeking 5 beingness presumption successful situation without the anticipation of parole for Jarrod Ramos, who committed the homicides with a shotgun astatine the Capital Gazette successful June 2018. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Michael Wachs volition determine the sentence.

In 2019, Ramos utilized Maryland’s mentation of an insanity defence to plead blameworthy but not criminally liable to each 23 counts against him.

After a 12-day proceedings successful July, a assemblage took little than 2 hours to cull arguments from Ramos' attorneys that helium could not recognize the criminality of his actions. The assemblage recovered him criminally liable for sidesplitting Wendi Winters, John McNamera, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen and Rebecca Smith.

Prosecutors contend Ramos, 41, acted retired of revenge against the paper aft it published a communicative astir his blameworthy plea to a misdemeanor complaint of harassing a erstwhile precocious schoolhouse classmate successful 2011. Prosecutors said his long, meticulous readying for the onslaught — which included preparations for his apprehension and agelong incarceration — proved helium understood the criminality of his actions.

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