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Robert Hale, Attorney
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Mental Health Issues Cloud Joe Bates Case as Execution
Nears
Raleigh, NC September 21, 2003 Lawyers
for Joseph Earl Bates, scheduled to die by lethal injection on September
26, are asking the courts and Governor Easley to consider a pivotal fact
that has yet to be addressed in his case: Bates suffered brain damage in
an auto accident that changed his personality and left