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PANETTI v. QUARTERMAN

No. 06-6407.

127 S.Ct. 2842 (2007)

551 U.S. 930

168 L.Ed.2d 662

Scott Louis PANETTI, Petitioner, v. Nathaniel QUARTERMAN, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 28, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greg Abbott, Attorney General of Texas, Kent C. Sullivan, First Assistant, Attorney General, Eric J.R. Nichols, Deputy Attorney General, for Criminal Justice, R. Ted Cruz, Solicitor General, Rance L. Craft, William L. Davis, Brantley Starr, Assistant Solicitors General, Tina J. Dettmer, Assistant Attorney General, Austin, Texas, for Respondent.

Keith S. Hampton, Austin, Texas, Gregory W. Wiercioch, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner.

"[T]he Eighth Amendment prohibits a State from carrying out a sentence of death upon a prisoner who is insane." Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399, 409-410, 106 S.Ct. 2595, 91 L.Ed.2d 335 (1986). The prohibition applies despite a prisoner's earlier competency...

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