Attorneys: Condemned killer in Texas is delusional

A federal appeals court is considering whether a condemned killer in Texas should be spared from execution Wednesday so he can undergo new mental competency examinations to support arguments he's too delusional to understand why he's being punished. Scott Panetti, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia some 14 years before killing his estranged wife's parents, "stands on the razor's edge of competency" and needs psychological evaluations to illustrate that his severe mental illness has worsened since he last was examined seven years ago, the prisoner's attorneys argued to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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