Sally L Satel, Columnist

Don't Execute Schizophrenic Killers

A mentally ill man is scheduled to die on Wednesday. Here's why Texas Governor Rick Perry must intervene to stop his execution.

December 1, 2014 at 6:22 PM UTC

By Sally L Satel

Sally L. Satel is a psychiatrist and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Is someone who was diagnosed with schizophrenia years before committing murder sane enough to be sentenced to death?

The government thinks so in the case of Scott L. Panetti, 56, who will die on Wednesday by lethal injection in Texas unless Governor Rick Perry stays the execution.