This story is truly creepy

From the Scranton (Pa.) Times-Tribune comes a report that a 63-year-old convicted mass murderer who waits for judgment on death row is now afflicted with a strange disease that is eating away at 90% of his flesh.

And the inmate says it's because "flesh eating demons" are after him.

WILKES-BARRE — A “delusional and paranoid” George Banks believes a “flesh-eating demon” is causing the unidentifiable skin disease that covers 90 percent of his body, his prison doctor said in Luzerne County Court on Tuesday.
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Dr. (Felipe) Arias testified for nearly an hour, detailing medical reports dating back to early June when Banks was initially diagnosed with a rash, swelling and scratches on his arms, legs and feet.

Dr. Arias said Banks, 63, was placed in isolation away from other inmates as the disease spread, causing blood and fluid to leak through bandages.

Banks refused to allow nurses to apply medication to his skin believing “nurses had demonic spirits and are out to torture him,” according to a medical report read by Dr. Arias.

Dr. Arias said Banks’ prison cell had a “foul stench” coming from it on July 10 and that rotten food and blood was found in his bed.

Early in his treatment and as the disease spread, Dr. Arias noted in his report, “continue serious infection will likely result in death in 30 days.”

Obviously that diagnosis was incorrect.

Dr. Arias said it has been difficult to treat Banks because he is “delusional and paranoid.”

Paranoid Banks may be, but even paranoids occasionally have enemies. Just for the sake of argument, what if Banks is not delusional? What if he is experiencing today a foretaste of the great beyond? The next paragraph of the story makes one ponder:

The state Supreme Court granted Banks a temporary stay of execution on Dec. 1, less than 29 hours before he was to die by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death for the September 1982 shooting spree that killed 13 people, including five of his children, and injuring one person in Wilkes-Barre and Jenkins Township.

Something to not think about as you lay yourself down to sleep tonight.