Scott Louis Panetti evaded the death penalty four times over 31 years for the murder of his in-laws.

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

Citing the Supreme Court case Panetti v. Quarterman, assistant federal public defender Amanda Bass said the Eighth Amendment test for determining whether a person is mentally incompetent to be ...

and the precedent set by the U.S. Supreme Court case Panetti v. Quarterman. READ :Suspected Cocaine Brick Discovered On Florida Beach Hutchinson's legal team argues that a stay of execution is ...

The motion asserts that as a result of this condition, Hutchinson is “insane and incompetent to be executed” under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.811(b) and the precedent set by the U.S. Supreme ...

“Mr. Hutchinson’s insanity places him outside of the class of individuals eligible to be executed,” the motion states, citing Panetti v. Quarterman and Madison v. Alabama, both of which emphasized the ...

Citing the Supreme Court case Panetti v. Quarterman, assistant federal public defender Amanda Bass said the Eighth Amendment test for determining whether a person is mentally incompetent to be ...

In Panetti v. Quarterman (127 S. Ct. 2842 (2007)), the Supreme Court ruled that such a defendant had a constitutional right to make a showing that his mental illness “obstruct[ed] a rational ...

SCOTT LOUIS PANETTI v. NATHANIEL QUARTERMAN, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS DIVISION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on ...

Ford v. Wainwright (1986); Panetti v. Quarterman (2007). “His symptoms of psychosis interfere with his ability to rationally understand the connection between his crime and his execution. For that ...

In 2007, in Panetti v. Quarterman, the Court ruled that those sentenced to death may not be executed if they do not understand the reason for their imminent execution. Justice Clarence Thomas ...

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 ...