Original sentence: Colin Ferguson (born January 14, 1958, Kingston, Jamaica) was convicted of murdering six people and injuring nineteen others on the Long Island Rail Road in Nassau County, New York on December 7, 1993.Ferguson's defense team had proposed an innovative defense that he had been driven to temporary insanity by black rage, and that he should not be held criminally liable, even though he had committed the killings.Ferguson's trial was notable for a number of unusual developments, including his firing of his defense counsel and insisting on representing himself and examining himself as a live witness
Edited sentence: Colin Ferguson is an American spree killer who emigrated from Jamaica.Ferguson's defense counsel had proposed an innovative defense that he had been driven to temporary insanity by black rage, and that he should not be held criminally liable, even though he had committed the killings.Motivated by phantom prejudice he saw as the reason for the failings in his life, he embarked upon a mission to massacre representatives of his supposed oppressors