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| A preview of Missouri's scheduled execution Tuesday |
| By elkharttruth.com- Jim Suhr |
| Published: 03/17/2015 |
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s oldest death row inmate, scheduled to be executed Tuesday by injection for the 1996 shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court and the state’s governor to spare his life. Attorneys for Cecil Clayton, 74, argue in last-minute appeals and a clemency request that Clayton has dementia and lingering brain-damage effects from a 1972 sawmill accident. Here’s a look at the case: THE CRIME Clayton was convicted of gunning down Christopher Castetter, a sheriff’s deputy in rural southwest Missouri’s Barry County. Castetter, then 29 and a father of three, was investigating a report of a suspicious vehicle near Cassville on the night before Thanksgiving 1996 when he was shot in the forehead while he was in his car. The vehicle was found against a tree with its engine running fast and wheels spinning. Castetter died at a hospital the next day. INMATE’S CLAIMS Clayton’s attorneys argue that a 1972 sawmill accident in which a piece of wood shot through Clayton’s skull forced surgeons to remove about 8 percent of his brain, including one-fifth of the frontal lobe portion governing such things as impulse control and judgment. Combined with his reported IQ of 71, they say psychiatric evaluations over the past decade have concluded that Clayton doesn’t understand the significance of his scheduled execution or the reasons for it, making him ineligible for being put to death under state and federal law. Read More. |
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