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Supremes' June 28 ruling in case of Texas death row inmate Scott Panetti concludes that law requires condemned inmates have some 'rational understanding' of why they're being executed in order to satisfy Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Courtroom debate over schizophrenic Texas death row inmate

At least for now, inmate cleared for death

But schizophrenic's execution stayed pending further appeals

U.S. District Court rules (again) on the mentally ill Texas inmate

It took 20 years of litigation to figure out

Supremes punt case of death row inmate Scott Panetti to federal district court in Austin

Texas gets ready to execute a schizophrenic man

How mentally ill does a prisoner have to be in order to deem execution cruel and unusual punishment?

Supreme Court will hear appeal of Texas death row inmate Scott Panetti, to address question of how mentally ill a person has to be for an execution to be considered cruel and unusual punishment

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Schizophrenic prisoner scheduled to die next week

If Texas can't kill the insane, where will the madness end?

But God forbid we take your guns away

2014 was a busy year for crime

Texas about to execute another insane inmate

Small changes proposed in state criminal laws

State's 15th execution of 2013 set for Nov. 12

Texas Defender Service attorney David Dow's memoir covers his his work defending the condemned

Convicted and sentenced to death for 1993 gang rape and murder, Jose Medellin has argued his case should be overturned.

Texas executions for 2004