Scott Panetti: Sane Enough to Execute?
Supremes' June 28 ruling in case of Texas death row
inmate Scott Panetti concludes that law requires
condemned inmates have some 'rational understanding'
of why they're being executed in order to satisfy Eighth
Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment
"...tried for the slayings, and Kerr Co. District Judge Stephen Ables allowed Panetti to represent himself at trial. Panetti..."