Fulton County courthouse shooter guilty

A jury has found 36-year old Fulton County courthouse gunman Brian Nichols guilty of murder in a 2005 shooting spree that left a judge and three others dead and turned Atlanta's seat of justice into a crime scene. Nichols confessed to the killings. But he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. He claimed he was gripped by a delusional compulsion that he was a slave rebelling against authority.

(Associated Press)