Kathryn Kase

It really boils down to public safety, if you can lock somebody up for life and know that they are not going to get parole, why wouldn’t you do that?

If you make a mistake, we can undo it, you can’t do that with the... by Kathryn Kase

If you make a mistake, we can undo it, you can’t do that with the death penalty.

I know of no death penalty trial in the state of Texas where the defendant has been able to represent himself who got life in prison.

Up until now, Mr. Panetti has had to proceed without any expert assistance, he is indigent, has been on death row for 20 years and has no way to afford his own mental health professionals.

Mr. Panetti is a sick man who has suffered from schizophrenia, an incurable mental illness, for over thirty years, including prior to and during the crime, and during his trial at which he represented himself in a floridly psychotic state.