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More on the Bruce Webster Case

By Steve Hall

Scott Goldstein reports, "High court denies appeal of mentally retarded man who helped rape, kill Arlington teen," for today's Dallas Morning News. To execute Bruce Carneil Webster for the 1994 kidnapping, rape and murder of an Arlington teen would be to violate the Supreme Court's ruling that capital punishment of the mentally retarded should be barred, he contends. But on Monday, the same court that banned such executions in 2002 turned away Webster's appeal. The Supreme Court gave no reason for its rejection of the case despite new evidence that indicates three federal doctors thought Webster may be mentally retarded when he applied for disability benefits in 1993, a year before 16-year-old Lisa Rene was killed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2010 (boomark / email).