“Gov. Abbott has the power to stop the spectacle of prison guards leading a blind, mentally incompetent, delusional man to the death chamber,” said attorney Maurie Levin.
But authorities say Thomas’ victims and their families should not be forgotten in this debate and that , his execution should go forward. The killings of Boren and her children shocked Sherman, a city of about 45,000 residents 65 miles north of Dallas.
The Supreme Court has prohibited the death penalty for the intellectually disabled, but not for people with serious mental illness. However, it has ruled that a person must be competent to be executed. Ashmore said the standard to determine if someone is competent to be executed is not “whether he is mentally ill or has hallucinations” but figuring out if an inmate understands why he is being put to death or that his execution is imminent.Joe Brown, the former Grayson County district attorney who led the prosecution, said this has been a difficult case for everyone involved.
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