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| Lawyers: Alabama inmate awaiting execution no longer remembers crime |
| By timesfreepress.com |
| Published: 01/23/2018 |
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to let the state proceed with executing a 67-year-old inmate who lawyers say has suffered strokes and dementia and cannot remember killing a police officer decades ago. The Alabama attorney general's office asked justices to reject inmate Vernon Madison's request for a stay of his lethal injection set for Thursday. Madison's attorneys have asked justices to review a state court finding that he was competent to be executed. "Vernon Madison is not insane, nor does he contend that he is insane. Yet, he seeks a stay of execution to permit the Court to review the denial of a petition ... that applies solely to a prisoner's sanity," attorneys for the state wrote. The state argued the court previously ruled the execution could proceed and Madison has presented nothing new to justify a stay. Read More. |
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This is no excuse for him to get a pardon for such a heinous crime. I think they should visit this website to know if there is any possibility that he might end up walking free.