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Hearing for Scott Panetti

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Scott Panetti's lawyers won a major case, Panetti v. Quarterman, in the U.S. Supreme Court last year, which allowed his lawyers to return to federal district court to demonstrate the severity of his mental illness. A hearing is being held yesterday, and Claire Osburn reports, "Judge must decide whether death row inmate's delusions prevent his execution," in the Austin American-Statesman.A hearing is being held today in federal court to determine whether a man who killed two people understands why he received the death penalty. The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Texas on June 28 from executing Scott Panetti, 49, saying that he was improperly denied the chance to prove he is mentally unfit for execution. The ruling returned his case to U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).