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More on George Banks Competency Hearing

By Kristin Houle

The Citizens Voice, out of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, has this update on the competency hearing of death row inmate George Banks ("Final expert says Banks incompetent for execution," August 16, 2008):"The psychological disorders that have turned mass murderer George Banks into a rambling paranoid have not improved since before he was scheduled to be executed in December 2004, psychiatrist Richard G. Dudley Jr. said Friday during the second day of testimony in Banks? competency hearing.Dudley, the third and final psychological expert called by Banks? attorneys, said the killer?s psychosis and vast delusions have made him incompetent to be executed, to petition for clemency or assist his attorneys.Banks, 66, went on a shooting spree in September 1982 that left 13 people dead, including four girlfriends, who ranged in age from 23 to 29, five of his children, ages 1 to 5, and four others...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prevention Not Punishment on August 18, 2008 (boomark / email).