Condemned inmate says government, military control his mind

BYLINE: By BOBBY ROSS JR., Associated Press Writer

SECTION: State and Regional

LENGTH: 851 words

DATELINE: NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Less than a week away from his scheduled execution, former Texas drifter Paul Dennis Reid says he’s ready to die for seven murders at fast-food restaurants that terrorized two Tennessee cities in 1997.

But Reid, 45, still maintains his innocence. He says he dropped his appeals, clearing the way for his death by lethal injection Tuesday, “not because I can’t win these cases or not because I am the killer or the executioner or that I’ve had any involvement in it.”

Rather, he blamed a government and military conspiracy to use him as “an experimental lab rat.” The former Oklahoma City resident said he did not know the reason for the conspiracy.

“I deal with it on a daily basis,” Reid told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.

Reid suggested scientific technology is used to control his mind and body.

“At times they have the ears ringing at a low level. At times they have the ears ringing at a high-pitched level. They have the scientific technology where they can cause parts of your body to itch, to move – to flicker,” he said.

Reid, dressed in a white prison jumpsuit and restrained by handcuffs, said the conspiracy started in 1985 while he was serving time in Texas for armed robberies. He said the government and military enlisted fellow inmates and his own family members to perform psychological tests on him.

“Well, naturally, out of 800 inmates, some of the convicts came back and conveyed this to me,” Reid said.

It wasn’t the first time Reid alleged such a conspiracy.

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