United States v. Scott A. Fountain

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

On January 29, 1984, Matthew Granger slew Boyd Spikerman, a guard at a federal prison. Prison officials found Spikerman in a pool of his own blood, stabbed more than a dozen times. Repeated application of a fire extinguisher to Spikerman’s head finished the job. Granger, lounging nearby, maintained that he “heard voices and didn’t mean to do it.” He didn’t say whose voices. Prison officials soon concluded that the voices came from other inmates, and that Granger certainly meant “to do it” — for he had acquired the knife the night before and planned ahead enough to…