Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, he spent 30 years on death row. In 2007, the Supreme Court raised the bar for executing ...

The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed. In its 2007 decision Panetti v. Quarterman, the court sent his case back for another competency hearing, explaining that the lower courts needed to find that ...

the person must possess a rational understanding of the reason for his execution (Panetti v. Quarterman 2007). Panetti does not have a logical understanding of his punishment. It is ...

Follow us on Twitter. In 2007, the Supreme Court case Panetti v. Quarterman set the standard for when the government can execute someone with severe mental illness. Fifteen years later ...

Issue: (1) Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman for a state court to bypass procedural safeguards when there are disputed ...

In the 2007 case Panetti v. Quarterman, the U.S. Supreme Court raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, holding that an individual must have a “rational understanding” of why the state ...