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KILLING THE INSANE, CONT.

Exquisitely understated story bannered in today's Star-Telegram relates a court ruling that convicted and paranoid schizophrenic murderer Steven Kenneth Staley "should be forcibly given anti-psychotic drugs to make him competent enough to execute."

So just how sane do you have to be to agree to be poisoned in front of witnesses by the state of Texas? Read and find out. And no, I'm not making this up.

Rod Davis · April 12, 2006 11:56 AM