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...spite of his previous record in jail and his history of sudden, violent behavior, prison officials assigned Bobby Shaw to the vegetable-cutting room, where inmates work with knives every day. He was neither examined nor treated for psychiatric illness. There Shaw was put under the direction of guard Walter Farrow, 61, who seemed to get along well with his prisoner. Bobby Shaw remembers his assignment with some excitement. "I was peelin' potatoes. I was runnin' the machine, makin' French fries, scalloped potatoes. Corn had to be snatched off the cob. Lettuce and cabbage had to be cut." He remembers...
...Bobby was again having psychotic episodes. On Aug. 8, 1977, Shaw was found standing naked at his cell door at 1:37 p.m. when he was supposed to report for work. He got into fights with other inmates. In early 1978 he alarmed his fellow kitchen employees by attacking a sack of potatoes with a cutting knife. Farrow and others asked for Bobby to be transferred to a less dangerous...
...JULY 16, 1978, FARROW BEgan his day as usual, unlocking the cabinet containing the knives. Without warning, Bobby reached past him, grabbing two knives. "No, Shaw, no!" Farrow yelled. Bobby Shaw stabbed him in the chest and ran into the hallway. Farrow chased him, then collapsed and died. Shaw was subdued and badly beaten. "I saw him the next day in the hospital ward," says Ruby. "His head was so big. It was twice the size of a normal head, like a watermelon." Only last December did Shaw offer a version of what happened. It was the voices...
...Shaw's second murder trial, Jefferson City public defender Howard McFadden asked for a psychiatric evaluation. Reported Dr. Sadashiv Parwatikar: "Mr. Shaw is a mildly depressed individual . . . There is no evidence of any psychotic disorder." In another report, he added, "Various members of the ((prison)) staff indicate that Mr. Shaw never caused any administrative problems . . . ((His previous history)) does not show any significant abnormalities." Parwatikar, a state employee, noted, however, that Bobby's IQ was "borderline...
...trial judge concluded that Shaw was mentally functional and refused to instruct the jury that they could take mental retardation into account when deciding their verdict. The jury found him guilty. The defense then asked that the court not "sully" its hands with a death sentence for this "flotsam on the sea of life." The judge sentenced Bobby Shaw to death...