Judge clears way for execution of South Carolina inmate who thinks most laws are unconstitutional

A judge in South Carolina has ruled a death row inmate's beliefs that most laws are unconstitutional and citizens have an absolute right to defend their property to the death are not proof he is mentally incompetent and should be executed. The ruling clears the way for now for Steven Bixby to be put to death for the 2003 killings of two police officers who came to his family's Abbeville home to discuss a dispute between them and a construction crew that had come to widen the road. Judge R. Scott Sprouse noted in his ruling, dated late last week, that Bixby cooperates with his lawyers and the psychiatrists treating and questioning him.