The execution of a bariboinite who murdered his in-laws is canceled – He suffers from a severe form of schizophrenia

Canceled implementation one baripinite in the US, who had been given the death penalty for the murder of his in-laws in Texas in 1992, due to his illness, a federal court decided today, after a twenty-year legal battle, as he suffers from severe schizophrenia.

The federal judge in Austin, the capital of this State, reached this decision by ruling that the mental illness of Scott Panetti, 65 years old today, “does not allow him to understand the reasons for his execution.”

Panetti was sentenced to death in 1995.

THE his execution “would violate the Eighth Amendment (of the Constitution) which prohibits all cruel and unusual punishment”the judge added Robert Pittmanciting a 1986 US Supreme Court decision. The judge reached this conclusion after a three-day hearing that dealt only with the death row inmate’s mental health.

The ruling “prevents the State of Texas from retaliating against a man who suffers from severe schizophrenia and as a result has a distorted view of the world around him,” said his attorney, Gregory Wirciok.

Although the doctors diagnosed scott panetti with schizophrenia from a young agethe Texas authorities insisted that the death penalty be applied after his final appeal to the Supreme Court in 2003 was rejected.

In September 1992 Panetti killed his in-laws in front of his wife, who had left him, and their three-year-old daughter. Three years later the judge who tried him gave him permission, despite the objections of even the prosecutors, to undertake his own defense. “Dressed in a burgundy cowboy outfit, Panetti spoke gibberish throughout the trial” and called as defense witnesses Jesus Christ, assassinated President John F. Kennedy and Pope John Paul II, Judge Pittman recalled.