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STATE
Tuesday, NoveVnber28,f
■day, Novi
THE BATTALION
Death row inmate’s appe;
reaches the Supreme Co
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court agreed Monday to
hear an appeal by a condemned killer
from Texas whose lawyers say he is
mentally retarded and has the rea
soning capacity of a 7-year-old.
The court said it will use the case
of Johnny Paul Penry to clarify how
much opportunity jurors in death-
penalty cases must have to consid
er the defendant’s mental capacity.
Penry’s lawyers also say prose
cutors were improperly allowed to
use a psychiatric exam report in vio
lation of his right not to testify
against himself.
On Nov. 16, the justices blocked
Penry’s execution just hours before
he was to be put to death. The execu
tion will remain on hold until the jus
tices issue a ruling, expected by July.
Penry’s lawyers describe him as
having an IQ of 50 to 60 and the rea
soning capacity of a 7-year-old.
However, prosecutors say he is ig
norant, not retarded. Texas Attorney
General John Comyn said Penry is “a
schemer, a planner and can be pur
posefully deceptive.”
Penry was convicted and sen
tenced to death for killing Pamela
Moseley Carpenter in Livingston,
Texas, in 1979. Carpenter was
stabbed repeatedly in the chest with
a pair of scissors she had been using
to make Halloween decorations.
“[Penry is] a
schemer, a plan
ner and can be
purposefully
deceptive”
— John Cornyn
Texas attorney general
The Supreme Court threw out
Penry’s conviction in 1989, ruling
that his rights were violated because
the sentencing jury was not proper
ly allowed to take his mental ca
pacity into account. But the justices
also decided the Constitution al
lows the execution of mentally re
tarded killers.
Penry was retried, convicted and
sentenced to death in 1990. His
lawyers appealed, saying the jury
again was not given enough cl®
to consider his mental capacity
The jury had been toldtoci
er mitigating circumstances in
ing whether Penry’s conductwa
liberate, whether he wasacoi
threat to society and whether his
lions were provoked by they
The 5th U.S. Circuit Courtof
peals upheld Penry’s conviction
death sentence last June.
In the appeal acted on Mod
Penry’s lawyers said thejur;
struction unfairly limited jura
consideration of his mental cap
ty and the fact that he suffered
rifle” abuse by his mother when
was a child.
His lawyers also said pro:
wrongly used a report on a 1!
chiatric exam of Penry while he
being held on a rape charge.Tk
tor said he would be a danger it:
leased, but Penry’s lawyers saii
was not warned his words coi
used against him.
Prosecutors said the jury hat
pie chance to consider Penry’s
tal capacity, and that proseci
could use the exam resultstorek
psychological evidence offeredts
Penry’s lawyers.
Fo /vard
Kansas
Two planes collide over Katyl
One pilot killed in crash, other lands safely at airport
KATY (AP) — One of two planes that collided over
crowded Interstate 10, killing a pilot, narrowly missed
the freeway’s lanes as it plunged to the ground west of
Houston.
Don Lee, the pilot of a Cessna 150 two-seater, died
Sunday in the mid-air collision.
The pilot of the other plane, a 1979 Cessna 172 four
seater carrying two people, managed to land safely at
West Houston Airport despite severe damage to one wing
and one landing gear.
“About a third of the right wing was cut off and hang
ing down,” West Houston Airport manager Woody
Lesikartold the Houston Chronicle in Monday’s editions.
“The right landing gear was also substantially damaged.
1 don’t know how they were able to make it here to the
airport. God was with them.”
Lesikar said the man and the woman, who were en
route to a Baytown airport, were uninjured.
Traffic backed up for miles on the inbound lane of In
terstate 10 as wreckage and debris were cleared, accord
ing to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Waller
County sheriff’s officers and other authorities investi
gated the crash.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administra
tion and National Transportation Safety Board will also
review data from the 5:15 p.m. impact.
A motorist, Michael Whitaker, was returning to Sam
Houston State University when the doomedplanei
within five feet of his small pickup just west of the KJ i
city limits.
“It hit; it wasn’t loud. As it hit, 1 came to a stop,”
Whitaker, 18. “Thank Cod I’m alive.”
Lee, 36, of Katy had flown from College Statioi
route to Westheimer Air Park in the Houston area.
A Katy hunter and his son, who were searching'
deer in the area, said the planes collided about 300lo?
feet above ground.
“I said, ‘It’s got to be too close,’ ” said thefaiJfl
Gilbert L. Davila. “All of a sudden they collided-^
was it. It just lost its wing, and it came straight dorf
Witnesses said Lee’s plane crashed into thesetof
craft at a 90-degree angle and plunged straight tolls
ground, with the tail section of the doomed Cessnatej
ting the emergency shoulder of the freeway, whichKj
crowded with motorists heading home from Thani®;
ing weekend events.
Katy Fire Chief Alan Williams said wreckaget'I
scattered more than 400 yards on both sides ofllsi
highway.
When the damaged plane’s pilot radioed that he";
able to turn in only one direction, West Houston Airptf
air traffic controllers cleared a runway. Lesikar saidfe!
plane landed at 5:32 p.m. on only one landing
slid off of the runway into grass.
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