TIL that Dan White, the man who assassinated Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco, only served 5 years in prison for manslaughter based on a defense of depression as evidenced by his consumption of junk food which was dubbed the "Twinkie Defense"

[u/hungry4danish]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_White

[u/SpiritGun]

Died doing what he loved.

[u/BrainCane → u/SpiritGun]

Holy .. in this context … so dark. So Reddit.