GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Florida’s Attorney General is proposing changes to the state’s insanity defense laws in response to a Marion County case involving a Kentucky child killer.

Attorney General James Uthmeier said he wants reforms following the case of 42-year-old Ronald Exantus. Exantus was charged in connection with the 2015 stabbing death of six-year-old Logan Tipton and found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Exantus was convicted of assaulting Logan’s two sisters and father. He served seven years of a 20-year sentence, then moved to Marion County.

He was arrested on Oct. 9 for not registering as a felon.

“Moral incapacity should only be used during sentencing to determine whether somebody should spend the rest of their life in a prison, or in a high security hospital,” Uthme

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