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.
Phil Donahue
Narrator
The Blood Is at the Doorstep
My Dad's on Death Row
What Will I Become?
The Governance of Love
The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot
Unthinkable: The Susan Smith Story
Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
This Beggar's Description
Les 16 de Basse-Pointe
A Year Of British Murder
Why Did You Kill Me?
What Should We Have Done?
