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Prosecutor: Man claiming insanity knew killing 6 was wrong

HoustonA man who claims he was insane when he traveled to suburban Houston and then fatally shot six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four children, clearly understood that he was doing wrong, a prosecutor told jurors at the man’s capital murder trial Wednesday.

Ronald Lee Haskell had been scheming for months to carry out the "cold-blooded execution" of the Stay family at their home in 2014, prosecutor Samantha Knecht said during closing arguments.

Authorities say Haskell wanted to hurt anybody who had helped his ex-wife following their divorce and that it was vengeance, not mental illness, that drove him to create a meticulous plan to achieve that goal.