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The Case Of Bruce Webster

By Steve Hall

"Mental retardation evidence may not save Arlington teenager's killer from death chamber," is the title of Jason Trahan's report for the Dallas Morning News.  It appeared in the Sunday edition.Bruce Carneil Webster helped kidnap, rape, torture and bury alive Arlington teen Lisa Rene. A judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agrees that new evidence, including psychological examinations, appears to show that Webster is mentally retarded. But although the U.S. Supreme Court banned the death penalty for the mentally retarded eight years ago, 5th Circuit Judge Jacques Wiener Jr. and his two colleagues agree that they can't stop Webster's execution. The panel says he exhausted his appeals to the point that it can't consider new evidence unless it is likely to prove he was innocent...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).