KILLER’S
REMORSE

Topics: Despair; Fear; Worry

Reference: Matthew 11:28–30

“I have been dying since October. I wake up at night so afraid, so terrified, that I couldn’t be that afraid while awake. It has taken its toll. I have come to hate this life and this system of things. I have come to have no hope.”

So said Mark Orrin Barton, just before dawn on July 19, 1999, after killing his estranged wife and two children and gunning down nine workers at an investment firm in Atlanta.

—Adam Cohen, “A Portrait of the Killer,” Time (August 9, 1999)