A man who was convicted of kidnapping, raping, and killing a teenage girl has been on death row for years. His death sentence was vacated due to a severe intellectual disability.
When the U.S. prisons director visited the penitentiary in, this past week, she stopped by the federal death row where Bruce Webster is in a solitary, 12-by-7 foot cell, 23 hours a day.
"How can I not get this guy off death row?," an exasperated Monica Foster said in a recent interview."Well, I did get him off death row. But why can’t I physically get him off death row?" In Webster's case, he and three accomplices kidnapped a sister of a rival drug trafficker in 1994, kicking their way into an Arlington, Texas, apartment as Lisa Rene frantically dialed 911. They raped her over two days, then stripped her, bludgeoned her with a shovel and buried her alive.
EXECUTION OF TEXAS DEATH ROW INMATE WHO CUT OUT HIS EYES DELAYED AFTER CONCERNS ABOUT HIS MENTAL STATE When his lawyers and the Justice Department asked in joint 2021 motion for U.S. judge in Texas where Webster was tried in 1996 to resentence him, the judge refused, saying he lacked jurisdiction. Lawrence based his Webster ruling on Atkins v. Virginia, a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2002 ruling that executing those with intellectual disabilities violated Eighth Amendment protections against"cruel and unusual" punishment.
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