Thompson v. State

OPINION

FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which E. RILEY ANDERSON, JANICE M. HOLDER, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.

The appellant, death-row inmate Gregory Thompson, challenges the trial court’s order denying a hearing on the issue of his competency to be executed. The trial court concluded that Thompson had failed to make a sufficient threshold showing. After carefully considering de novo the petition, the trial court’s order, and the entire record in this cause, we conclude that the trial court correctly held that Thompson failed to make a threshold…