Scott Panetti, 65, also said the devil has ‘blinded’ Texas.
A Texas death row inmate who tried to call Jesus Christ and John F. Kennedy as trial witnesses is not competent to be executed, a federal judge has ruled.
In a ruling issued on Wednesday, US district judge Robert Pitman in Austin said Panetti’s well-documented mental illness and disorganised thought prevent him from understanding the reason for his execution. Gregory Wiercioch, one of Panetti’s lawyers, said Mr Pitman’s ruling “prevents the state of Texas from exacting vengeance on a person who suffers from a pervasive, severe form of schizophrenia that causes him to inaccurately perceive the world around him”.
In 2007, in a ruling on an appeal in Panetti’s case, the high court added that a mentally ill person must also have a rational understanding of why they are being executed.
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