Scott Panetti
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Death Watch: Executing the Mentally (and Physically) Ill
Texas gets ready to execute a schizophrenic man
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Tinkering With Death
Texas Defender Service attorney David Dow’s memoir covers his his work defending the condemned
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Legal Battle Over When Prisoner Is Sane Enough for Execution Bounces Back Here
Supremes punt case of death row inmate Scott Panetti to federal district court in Austin
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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
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Supremes to Hear Case of Mexican National on Death Row
Convicted and sentenced to death for 1993 gang rape and murder, Jose Medellin has argued his case should be overturned.
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Supremes Examine Capital Punishment, Mental Illness
How mentally ill does a prisoner have to be in order to deem execution cruel and unusual punishment?
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Mental Illness and Execution: Supremes to weigh in
Supreme Court will hear appeal of Texas death row inmate Scott Panetti, to address question of how mentally ill a person has to be for an execution to be considered cruel and unusual punishment