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| Supreme Court to Allow Execution of Mentally Ill Inmate |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/03/2003 |
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A new execution date can be set for convicted killer James Colburn. That's after the U.S. Supreme Court recently lifted a last minute stay it had granted because Colburn is mentally ill. He's a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who has spent time in a prison psychiatric ward several times. The former Texas carpenter and bricklayer confessed to police that he choked and stabbed Peggy Louise Murphy, 55, to death on June 26, 1994. Colburn, 42, said last year he worried he would commit another crime if he was released from prison. The court removed its November stay on procedural grounds -- not because of his mental condition. The Supreme Court ruled last year that the mentally retarded can't be executed. But the decision didn't affect the status of mentally ill killers on Death Row. |
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