By of the Journal Sentinel Houston — A federal appeals court Wednesday morning stayed the execution of Wisconsin native Scott Panetti, who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. in Texas for the 1992 shooting deaths of his wife's parents. Panetti, who was first diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1978 and was hospitalized more than a dozen times before the killings, was allowed to represent himself at trial. He wore a purple cowboy suit and tried to subpoena Jesus Christ, the Pope and John F. Kennedy. The that Panetti had not been suitably examined to determine if he was competent to be executed. At the time, . | Updated: 11:30 a.m. By Evan Frank...
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