Executing the Insane: The Case of Scott Panetti

Executing the Insane: The Case of Scott Panetti (2007)

January 1st, 20070h 27min

Documentary
0%

Overview

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced to death on September 22, 1995. Panetti has an extensive history of mental illness, including schizophrenia, manic depression, auditory hallucinations and paranoia. Panetti was hospitalized, both voluntarily and involuntarily for mental illness fourteen times in six different hospitals before his arrest for capital murder in 1992. Following his conviction, Panetti’s former wife, and daughter of the victims, Sonja Alvarado, filed a petition stating that Panetti never should have been tried for the crimes as he was suffering from paranoid delusions at the time of the killings.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Going Varsity in Mariachi

Going Varsity in Mariachi


Released on: 2023-01-22
Documentary

A year in the life of an underdog competitive high school mariachi band in the Texas borderlands.

Freedom Downtime

Freedom Downtime


Released on: 2001-01-01
Documentary

A feature-length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.

Remember the Alamo

Remember the Alamo


Released on: 2004-02-02
Documentary, History

In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although ruled by Mexico, the region was home to more...

The Amanda Knox Saga

The Amanda Knox Saga


Released on: 2014-02-17
Crime, Documentary

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas

Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas


Released on: 2021-02-10
Documentary, TV Movie

Roam the Wild West frontier land of the Rio Grande’s Big Bend alongside its iconic animals, includin...

THIS IS WHAT TRANS PUNK LOOKS LIKE

THIS IS WHAT TRANS PUNK LOOKS LIKE


Released on: 2024-04-05
Documentary, Music

"This Is What Trans Punk Looks Like" is a documentary about the transgender punk culture in Texas an...

Judgement in Hungary

Judgement in Hungary


Released on: 2013-04-28
Documentary

Hungary was the site of serial murders on ethnic basis. Over the course of one year, the murderers k...

Time

Time


Released on: 2020-10-09
Documentary

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together whi...

The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker

The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker


Released on: 2003-01-01
Documentary

Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narrates this remar...

Tarnation

Tarnation


Released on: 2003-10-19
Documentary, Drama

Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture o...

Death Metal Murders

Death Metal Murders


Released on: 2005-11-24
Documentary, Music

Murder, rape, satanism and necrophilia is the staple diet of millions of teenagers who listen to the...

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him


Released on: 2005-04-07
Documentary, Drama

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

An Island of the Mind

An Island of the Mind


Released on: 2025-12-04
Documentary

A homeless man with schizophrenia slowly embraces antipsychotic medication under Hawaii's only willi...

Married, Single, Dead

Married, Single, Dead


Released on: 2011-12-15
TV Movie, Documentary

Married, Single, Dead reveals the alarming emergence of cases in which women are killed by their ex-...

Into the Deep: The Submarine Murder Case

Into the Deep: The Submarine Murder Case


Released on: 2020-01-23
Documentary, Crime

In 2016, a young Austrialian filmmaker began documenting amateur inventor Peter Madsen. One year in,...

Scenes from a Teenage Killing

Scenes from a Teenage Killing


Released on: 2011-01-25
Documentary

Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, the film explores the impact of teenage killings on fa...

Lost for Life

Lost for Life


Released on: 2013-06-22
Crime, Documentary

A documentary about juveniles who are serving life in prison without parole and their victims' famil...

Uncle Bob

Uncle Bob


Released on: 2010-06-26
Documentary

Robert Oppel's documentary about the life and murder of his uncle and namesake, Robert Opel, the man...

The Patent Scam

The Patent Scam


Released on: 2017-08-15
Documentary

The corruption runs deeper than you'd ever imagine. A multi-billion dollar industry you've never hea...

Black Box BRD

Black Box BRD


Released on: 2001-05-24
Documentary

Black Box BRD steps back into German history, showing the Federal Republic of Germany of the 70s and...