USA (Texas): Death penalty/Legal concern: John Paul Penry

John Paul Penry is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 16 November 2000. He was sentenced to death in 1980, and again at a retrial in 1990, for the murder of Pamela Moseley Carpenter in 1979. John Paul Penry has serious mental impairment and suffered a childhood of appalling torture and abuse.

Choose a language to view report

Download PDF