Post by pavel on May 13, 2016 2:06:39 GMT -6
Alabama cop killer's execution delayed after justices let lower court's ruling stand
Hours before an Alabama inmate was set to die by lethal injection, a federal appeals court on Thursday agreed to delay the execution to let authorities consider arguments about his competency.
Vernon Madison was found guilty and sentenced to death for killing Julius Schulte, a police officer in Mobile, Alabama, in 1985. According to police, Schulte -- a 22-year veteran of the department -- was responding to a domestic complaint involving a missing child when he was shot.
Madison's case has stretched on for decades, through multiple convictions and reversals. Alabama officials had planned to execute him by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday, but a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said in an order Thursday morning that it would allow him to press his case in court.
Alabama's attorney general filed a motion Thursday with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to vacate this stay, arguing that the appeals court had committed "an affront to Alabama's judicial branch" and that it would "add insult to that injury by granting a stay of execution."
Read more: www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/05/alabama_cop_killers_execution.html
Hours before an Alabama inmate was set to die by lethal injection, a federal appeals court on Thursday agreed to delay the execution to let authorities consider arguments about his competency.
Vernon Madison was found guilty and sentenced to death for killing Julius Schulte, a police officer in Mobile, Alabama, in 1985. According to police, Schulte -- a 22-year veteran of the department -- was responding to a domestic complaint involving a missing child when he was shot.
Madison's case has stretched on for decades, through multiple convictions and reversals. Alabama officials had planned to execute him by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday, but a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said in an order Thursday morning that it would allow him to press his case in court.
Alabama's attorney general filed a motion Thursday with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to vacate this stay, arguing that the appeals court had committed "an affront to Alabama's judicial branch" and that it would "add insult to that injury by granting a stay of execution."
Read more: www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/05/alabama_cop_killers_execution.html