A federal court of appeals on Wednesday issued a stay of execution for Texas death row inmate Scott Panetti just hours before the man diagnosed with severe mental illness was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.
The Texas Tribune reports:
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In a statement, Panetti’s lawyers Gregory Wiercioch and Kathryn Kase welcomed the court’s ruling. “We are grateful that the court stayed tonight’s scheduled execution of Scott Panetti, a man who has suffered from schizophrenia for three decades, for a careful review of the issues surrounding his competency,” they said. “Mr. Panetti’s illness, schizophrenia, was present for years prior to the crime, profoundly affected his trial, and appears to have worsened in recent years. Mr. Panetti has not had a competency evaluation in seven years, and we believe that today’s ruling is the first step in a process which will clearly demonstrate that Mr. Panetti is too severely mentally ill to be executed.”
The Texas Attorney General’s office has pushed forward with the execution despite national outcry over the case and efforts to have Texas Governor Rick Perry intervene have been met with silence.
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