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Guest blogging on Monte Allen Delk

By National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Today we guest-blogged over at Executed Today, which my friend Jason runs.Here's our entry:Six years ago today the state of Texas executed an FBI agent, a state district judge, the president of Kenya and a war hero who commanded a nuclear-powered submarine during the Civil War. More aptly put, Texas executed a seriously mental ill inmate named Monty Allen Delk who, at varying times, believed he was all of these things. Delk was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Gene ?Bubba? Allen of Anderson County in East Texas. Although the state of Texas maintained that Delk was ?malingering,? i.e., pretending to be mentally ill to stave off execution, the prison system?s former chief mental health officer stated that Delk suffered from a severe mental illness, one that had become progressive in nature since it was first noticed in 1989 ?- years after Delk was tried and convicted...continue to full post

Full post as published by Abolish the Death Penalty on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).