Death row inmate files lawsuit claiming denial of mental health treatment
Published: April 21, 2013
Macon Telegraph
By AMY LEIGH WOMACK
A man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a Laurens County deputy in 1998 has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that because he is on death row he is not receiving the mental health treatment he needs.
Deputy Kyle Dinkheller clocked Andrew Howard Brannan driving 98 mph on Interstate 16 on Jan. 12, 1998. The traffic stop ended with a gunfight between the 22-year-old deputy and Brannan, who was shooting a high-powered military-style rifle. Brannan was shot once in the abdomen. Dinkheller was shot multiple times, including in the chest, twice in the back and twice in the head.
Jurors convicted Brannan of murder in 2000 and sentenced him to die. Brannan had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
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