Texas executes 'mentally ill' man

A Texas man said by his lawyers to be mentally ill and incompetent has been executed for killing a 12-year-old girl more than a decade ago after the US Supreme Court rejected an 11th-hour appeal.

Texas executes 'mentally ill' man
Thu, 11 Oct, 2012 - 08:06

A Texas man said by his lawyers to be mentally ill and incompetent has been executed for killing a 12-year-old girl more than a decade ago after the US Supreme Court rejected an 11th-hour appeal.

Jonathan Green, 44, was sentenced to death for the abduction, rape and strangling of Christina Neal, whose body was found at his home in June 2000.

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