HOUSTON - A judge in Houston Wednesday ruled condemned serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz is mentally competent to be executed next week.
The so-called ``Railroad Killer'' gained his nickname by hopping on freight trains and committing murders near railroad tracks -- including that of an elderly Barrow County woman.
The 46-year-old Mexican national faces execution Tuesday in Huntsville, Texas, over the 1998 rape-slaying of a Houston-area physician. The victim was Doctor Claudia Benton.
Resendiz is linked to eight slayings in Texas, two each in Illinois and Florida, and one each in Kentucky, California and Georgia from 1986 through mid-1999.
Defense psychiatrists have said Resendiz is schizophrenic, delusional, fears government conspiracies and believes he'll survive his lethal injection.
Prosecution psychiatrists agreed he may have delusions -- but say he's not schizophrenic and is eligible for execution.
In Georgia, he was accused of killing Fannie Whitner Byers,81, in rural Barrow County in December 1998. She was bludgeoned to death in her home near a railroad track.
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