“I no longer wanted to live,” Kaleb Franks told jurors, minutes after settling into the witness chair in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his co-conspirators. “A large portion of my family had died. I was struggling financially. Just wasn't happy” he went on to explain to the jury for his reasoning to kidnap and kill the Governor of Michigan in a failed insurrection attempt. He said he hoped to be killed by police in a shootout.
