Word: grigson
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...second decision involved a Texas prisoner named Ernest Smith, who was convicted of taking part in a grocery store robbery during which his accomplice killed a clerk. A judge asked Dallas Psychiatrist James Grigson to talk to Smith in jail to see if he was mentally competent to stand trial. Grigson decided that he was. After a jury found Smith guilty, it reconvened to sentence him-a procedure required by Texas law whenever the state seeks the death penalty. Grigson, a controversial figure with a striking record of testifying in favor of the death penalty (see box), said that Smith...