Law: Master Of Cant and Recant
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Because of one of the earlier convictions, Lucas, 50, is currently on death row in Texas; he is also under nine life or near-life sentences. "I'm no mass murderer," the master of cant and recant now says."I killed one person." That was his mother, in 1961, for which, conveniently, he has already served a 14-year term. His string of false admissions was made out of anger at the law, he claims. "I got fed up and tried to commit legal suicide." In the end, the courts may never be able to determine whether Lucas is the most remorseless killer since Bluebeard or a fabricator of ghoulish fictions to rival Stephen King. Judge Moore summed up the feelings of many: "We're all entering a big black hole of the law that we may never get out of."
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