US court halts scheduled Wednesday execution of inmate attorneys say is delusional

A federal appeals court halted the scheduled execution of a Texas killer whose attempt to subpoena Jesus Christ as a trial witness and other behaviour led his attorneys to argue he is too mentally ill for capital punishment. Scott Panetti, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia some 14 years before fatally shooting his estranged wife's parents in 1992, was granted the reprieve Wednesday, less than eight hours before he was set to receive a lethal injection.

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