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| Court hears arguments over competency of death row inmate |
| By wvtm13.com |
| Published: 06/23/2016 |
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ATLANTA — An appellate court will hear arguments over whether strokes have left a 65-year-old Alabama inmate mentally incompetent to be executed. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hold a hearing Thursday in the case of inmate Vernon Madison. The appellate court in May stayed Madison's execution just seven hours before he was scheduled to receive a lethal injection. Madison was convicted in the 1985 killing of Mobile police Officer Julius Schulte. Prosecutors said Madison crept up and shot Schulte in the back of the head as he sat in his police car. Read More. |
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