"I wanted to eat him, but I didn't want to kill him,"

Kind of a catch-22, there.

A German cannibal who killed a man who wanted to be eaten told a court Monday that he had only been carrying out his victim's wishes and had not expressly sought to kill him.

"I wanted to eat him, but I didn't want to kill him," Armin Meiwes, 44, told judges in three hours of testimony at his retrial.

(Source: Reuters/Yahoo)