India, Feb. 23 -- The Psychiatric Security Review Board in Middletown granted conditional release to Connecticut man from a maximum-security mental health facility after he was declared not guilty by reason of insanity for using a hatchet to kill a victim and then devouring their body parts. The ruling has generated huge outrage, with GOP leaders calling it the "outrageous" move.

In 2013, Tyree Smith was sentenced to 60 years in Whiting Forensic Hospital for the murder of Angel Gonzalez, whose mangled corpse was discovered in a vacant Bridgeport apartment in January 2012, just a month after he was hacked to death.

In his testimony, Smith's cousin claimed that he told her that he had eaten an eyeball and a portion of Gonzalez's brain whi...