USA: "Where is the compassion?" The imminent execution of Scott Panetti, mentally ill offender\n\n

USA: "Where is the compassion?" The imminent execution of Scott Panetti, mentally ill offender\n\n

Index Number: AMR 51/011/2004
Date Published: 16 January 2004
Categories: USA, Americas

This brief report examines the case of Scott Panetti who, despite being hospitalized numerous times with depression and schizophrenia, was sentenced to death in the state of Texas.