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...weeks ago, TIME spoke to Bobby Shaw about his voices...
...awaited execution in the mid-'80s, Bobby Shaw's condition deteriorated. He became withdrawn and disheveled -- and the prison system finally took notice. In September 1986 a new department of corrections report announced that Shaw had a "schizoid personality disorder." But it was all too late...
...prisoner's legal appeals were being quickly exhausted. Court after court had turned him down, and his first "serious" execution warrant was issued for May 1, 1990. In an effort to save Shaw, Donald Wolff, a prominent St. Louis attorney assigned to the case, brought in Illinois psychologist Daniel Cuneo, a political conservative usually extremely demanding on fitness matters, to determine whether Bobby was "competent" to be executed. Competency demands that a man understand why he was sentenced to die and what will happen when he is executed. Cuneo asked Shaw if he expected to be alive a week after...
...evidence into cases already under appeal. Says O'Brien: "Bobby's death sentence is the product of a complete breakdown of the adversary system. The true defense in this case has never been inside a courtroom, and it never will be." In the eyes of the law, Bobby Shaw has been and always will be a normal, functioning citizen -- and fit for execution...
...Martha Shaw was studying to become a nurse when Calvin Morris was killed. She could never bring herself to finish. "I just can't handle that kind of pressure. It's killing me. My son's daddy is dead. He needed his daddy." She was so angry at Bobby that "for a long time I wouldn't speak to him." Then the second murder occurred. "I began to realize he was sick. I've blamed myself all these years." She does not want to see him die. "Bobby will never have a wife and family. He will never be able...