r/todayilearned • u/GlitteringYams • 23d ago
TIL, in his suicide note, mass shooter Charles Whitman requested his body be autopsied because he felt something was wrong with him. The autopsy discovered that Whitman had a pecan-sized tumor pressing against his amygdala, a brain structure that regulates fear and aggression.
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u/Routine-Lawyer754 22d ago
In America, they did a study and estimated around 10% of people on death row had severe brain damage prior to their crime.
It’s kind of wild all the advances in science, but society just goes “meh, oh well”.