Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, he spent 30 years on death row. In 2007, the Supreme Court raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, though Texas still tried to put him to death.
Scott Panetti in a prison visitation cell in Texas in 2006. The following year, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an individual must have a “rational understanding” of why the state planned to put him to death.
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