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The Case of Bruce Webster

By Steve Hall

The Dallas Morning News has posted, "High court denies appeal of mentally retarded man who helped rape, kill Arlington teen." The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away the appeal of an Arkansas man who helped kidnap, rape and bury an Arlington teen alive in 1993, although a federal judge said evidence shows that he is mentally retarded. The high court banned the death penalty for the mentally retarded eight years ago. In their ruling today, the justices offered no comment in rejecting the appeal of Bruce Carneil Webster. Webster, 37, was sentenced to death more than 14 years ago and has since tried to persuade federal judges that he is mentally retarded. A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in an April ruling that Webster had 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 December 06, 2010 (boomark / email).