Opinion ID: 1248023
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Heading: Crenshaw

Text: Crenshaw stabbed his wife 27 times, one of which stabs was fatal. He later returned and decapitated her and then buried her remains in a hidden place. Cameron committed an equally brutal murder; he stabbed his stepmother 97 times. In Crenshaw, there was testimony by medical experts that he had delusions of grandeur, religiosity (including a belief in his possession of special powers), auditory hallucinations, lack of insight, and extreme emotional liability. A psychiatrist testified that Crenshaw was suffering from a paranoid state and was in remission from former psychotic episodes. He had a history of mental problems. He was hospitalized in his home state of Texas 15 times between 1970 and 1978 where he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Crenshaw testified he knew that if he killed his wife he was violating the law, but he believed he had a duty to do it under the teaching of his Moscovite religious beliefs.