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Danielle Simpson and Competency

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AP's Michael Graczyk reports, "Court to examine Texas killer who wants to die," via the Houston Chronicle.A federal appeals court is sending the case of a condemned Texas inmate back to a lower court to see if the prisoner is mentally competent to decide he wants to die for the slaying of an 84-year-old East Texas woman nine years ago. Danielle Simpson, 29, has told the courts he's tired of being locked up and if he can't be free he wants to die. Simpson was condemned for the January 2000 slaying of Geraldine Davidson, a former Palestine school teacher and church organist. Davidson was abducted from her home during a burglary, was bound and gagged, driven around in the trunk of her car and then beaten and dumped into the Neches River...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).