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Executing the Insane: The Case of Scott Panetti (2007)
Directed by Sarah Kunstler, Emily Kunstler
Documentary · 27m
Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced to death on September 22, 1995. Panetti has an extensive history of mental illness, including schizophrenia, manic depression, auditory hallucinations and paranoia. Panetti was hospitalized, both voluntarily and involuntarily for mental illness fourteen times in six different hospitals before his arrest for capital murder in 1992. Following his conviction, Panetti’s former wife, and daughter of the victims, Sonja Alvarado, filed a petition stating that Panetti never should have been tried for the crimes as he was suffering from paranoid delusions at the time of the killings.
Cast
Phil Donahue
Crew
- Director
- Sarah Kunstler, Emily Kunstler
- Editor
- Emily Kunstler
Details
- Release date
- 2007-01-01
- Runtime
- 27m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- The Texas Defender Service, Off Center Media