Entries tagged with “Scott Panetti

Policy Issues

Mental Illness

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Nov 03, 2022

Federal Court Holds Competency Hearing for Scott Panetti

A fed­er­al dis­trict court in Texas has heard evi­dence on, and now must decide, whether a severe­ly men­tal­ly ill man is com­pe­tent to be exe­cut­ed. On October 24, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas began pr…

Policy Issues

Arbitrariness

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Mental Illness

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United States Supreme Court

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Mar 26, 2015

States Struggle with Determinations of Competency to Be Executed

A recent arti­cle in Mother Jones exam­ines lin­ger­ing ques­tions in the deter­mi­na­tion of which inmates are exempt from exe­cu­tion because of men­tal incom­pe­ten­cy. In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright that a per­son could no…