Jared Lee Lloughner pleads guilty to going on deadly shooting rampage, killing 6, wounding 13

By AmericanDreamer on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 6:11pm |

Associated Press, earlier this afternoon.

Jared Lee Loughner agreed Tuesday to spend the rest of his life in prison, accepting that he went on a deadly shooting rampage at an Arizona political gathering and sparing the victims a lengthy, possibly traumatic death-penalty trial.

His plea came soon after a federal judge found that months of psychiatric treatment for schizophrenia made Loughner able to understand charges that he killed six people and wounded 13 others, including his intended target, then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

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