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I don't know what to be more amazed with -- that an appeal for this guy made all the way to the Supreme Court:

Twelve years after Scott Louis Panetti wore a purple cowboy suit and subpoenaed John F. Kennedy, the pope and Jesus Christ while unsuccessfully defending himself in a Texas double-murder trial, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday blocked the Hayward native's execution on grounds he is too delusional to be put to death.

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"He suffers from a severe, documented mental illness that is the source of gross delusions preventing him from comprehending the meaning and purpose of the punishment to which he has been sentenced," Kennedy wrote. "This argument, we hold, should have been considered."

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Panetti, 49, had been hospitalized 14 times for mental illness before the 1992 slayings, but the Texas trial court deemed him competent to defend himself and sane enough to get the death penalty. As quoted by Kennedy in Thursday's decision, the standby lawyer appointed to Panetti's 1995 trial described his conduct as "bizarre," "scary" and "trance-like," and post-conviction mental evaluations and interviews have yielded similar descriptions of Panetti's state.

...Or that four Supreme Court Justices (guess which ones...) actually thought subpoenaing dead presidents, the Son of God, and the Pope while donning western-leisure chic is not evidence of sheer lunacy.

MORE: Mother Jones catches on too.