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Alabama asks court to allow execution set for this week
By timesfreepress.com
Published: 05/10/2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The state of Alabama is asking a federal judge to allow an execution to move forward later this week.

The state attorney general's office filed documents Monday opposing a bid by 65-year-old Vernon Madison to postpone his execution, now scheduled for Thursday.

Madison's lawyers claim strokes and dementia have left the prisoner incompetent to face lethal injection for killing Mobile police officer Julius Schulte in 1985.

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