Kentucky man pleads guilty but mentally ill in grandmother's brutal recorded killing

In a Kentucky courtroom, a 19-year-old stood before a judge and admitted to killing the woman who raised generations of his family — his grandmother — in an act of violence so deliberate he recorded it himself. The plea of guilty but mentally ill reflects one of law's most difficult negotiations: the space between culpability and illness, between punishment and treatment. Cheri Oliver, 74, died from wounds inflicted by her own grandson inside her own home, while her daughter watched and pleaded for it to stop. The sentence that follows in July will attempt, as sentences often must, to answer q