Man who killed in-laws before trying to call Jesus as witness is spared death

Scott Panetti has been spared the death penalty (Texas Department of Criminal Justice/AP)

A Texas death row inmate who tried to call Jesus Christ and John F. Kennedy as trial witnesses is not competent to be executed, a federal judge has ruled.

Scott Panetti, 65, who has been on death row for nearly 30 years for shooting his in-laws dead in front of his wife and young children, claims Texas wants to execute him to cover up incest, corruption, sexual abuse and drug trafficking he has uncovered.