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| Federal appeals court halts execution of mentally ill Texas inmate |
| By jurist.org- Peter Snyder |
| Published: 12/05/2014 |
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A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday halted the execution of a Texas death row inmate allegedly suffering from severe mental illness. The inmate, Scott Panetti, was sentenced to death [NYT report] for the killing of his parents-in-law in 1992. The per curium opinion states that the court will stay execution "pending further order of the court to allow us to fully consider the late arriving and complex legal questions at issue in this matter." Lawyers for Panetti contend that their client suffers from schizophrenia [NIH backgrounder] and had called on the federal courts to intervene on the basis that the execution of a mentally ill individual violates the Eighth Amendment's [text] ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Read More. |
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