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Wrongful Convicitions in Californian Capital Cases

By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2008


2008

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This report details the cases of thirteen men and one woman who were convicted of first degree murder in California and later freed after a court concluded that they had been wrongfully convicted.

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Executing the Insane: The Story of Scott Panetti

By The Texas Defender Service / Google videos, on 1 January 2007


2007

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Scott Panetti was accused of killing his parents in law and convicted. Scott suffered from severe mental illness for many years, Schizophrenia. He dismissed his legal counsel and represented himself at trial wearing a cow boy suit and asking irrelavent questions. This video tells the story of Scott Panetti’s case and questions whether he was mentally stable to attend trial and represent himself.

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