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Edwin Hart Turner as a child. Turner was scheduled for execution Feb. 8. Judge Carlton Reeves issued a temporary restraining order on the execution so that Turner could get a psychiatric evaluation.

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Court Orders Stay of Execution for Hart Turner

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Is State Executing a Mentally Ill Man?

Hart Turner's mind seems to have broken Dec. 12, 1995. After two failed suicide attempts, a half-dozen stays in mental institutions and years of mental and physical abuse, Turner shot …

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