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| Inmate spared execution: Lawyers agree on Druery’s mental incompetence |
| By theeagle.com- Jake Walker |
| Published: 04/06/2016 |
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Lawyers agreed Monday that Brazos County death row inmate Marcus Druery is unfit to be executed for the 2002 slaying of a 20-year-old man in rural Brazos County. Druery's attorneys filed more than 150 pages of reports from two mental health professionals saying Druery suffered from a major mental illness that renders him unable to understand why he was being punished. One expert said Druery's illness is "characterized by paranoid and grandiose delusions" that "deprive him of a rational understanding of the connection between his crime and punishment." Another said Druery wrote letters from prison accusing Magic Johnson of impersonating him and claiming that he found the cure to HIV. Read More. |
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