If you make a mistake, we can undo it, you can’t do that with the death penalty. Kathryn Kase More Quotes by Kathryn Kase More Quotes From 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? Kathryn Kase us-news 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. Kathryn Kase us-news 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. Kathryn Kase us-news 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. Kathryn Kase us-news