Execution Competency: Supreme Court Splits
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 09, Number 03, September/October 2007 , pp.33-34(2)
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Abstract:
The Supreme Court holds that Texas inmate Scott Panetti had not been afforded the procedures he was entitled to in the determination of his mental competency to be executed citing his particular illness obstructs a rational understanding of the state’s reasons for the execution.Keywords: Panetti v. Quarterman , 127 S.Ct. 2842, Ford v. Wainwright , 477 U.S. 399
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