Paducah, Kentucky, school shooter makes plea for parole after 25 years in prison

[Scott]

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A killer who fatally shot three people in a high school prayer circle in Paducah, Kentucky, a quarter-century ago will make his case for freedom Tuesday.

Michael Carneal’s public defender is asking the Kentucky Parole Board to keep in mind that Carneal was only 14 years old at the time, and that he was suffering from undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia as he was grappling with bullying and the transition from middle to high school.

Carneal, now 39, “has committed himself to his mental health treatment, to participating in available educational and vocational programs, and to being a helpful and positive person within the prison,” attorney Alana Meyer wrote this month.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/us/paducah-kentucky-michael-carneal-parole/index.html

[pegman]

 Give his chances of being released somewhere in between zero and none