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More on the Case of Bruce Webster

By Steve Hall

Today's Dallas Morning News carries the editorial, "Mental retardation and the death penalty."Bruce Carneil Webster is a brutal thug, one of three whose pursuit of two men who had stiffed them on a drug deal ended with the kidnapping, rape and hellish murder of a 16-year-old honor student. Shed no tears for Webster: He beat the Arlington girl with a shovel, dragged her into a grave in Arkansas, stripped her, doused her with gasoline and burned her alive. He should never see the outside of a prison. Nonetheless, new evidence about his mental capacity, uncovered 13 years after his conviction, raises serious questions about whether Webster, who indisputably committed the crime, can be legally put to death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 22, 2010 (boomark / email).