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| Lawyers: Condemned inmate mentally incompetent for execution |
| By wiat.com |
| Published: 06/24/2016 |
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ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has said death row prisoners must have “rational understanding” that they are about to be executed and why, but lawyers for a condemned Alabama inmate say stroke-induced dementia has left their client unable to pass that test. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta seemed skeptical of the state of Alabama’s arguments that Vernon Madison didn’t need to remember the crime he was convicted of to have a rational understanding of it. “If the state of Alabama thinks it can execute people who have no memory of what they did, that’s a disconnect for me,” Circuit Judge Adalberto Jordan said. His comment came during arguments in the case of the 65-year-old Madison, who was convicted in the 1985 killing of a Mobile, Alabama, police officer. The appeals court panel in May halted Madison’s execution just seven hours before he was to receive a lethal injection so it could consider his lawyers arguments that he is not mentally fit to be executed. Read More. |
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