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~ Vernon Madison, (AL) ~
By: BuzzC Date: April 6, 2016, 11:39 pm
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May execution date set for convicted Mobile cop killer--
Friday, April 1, 2016
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Alabama has set the execution date for Vernon Madison, a death
row inmate convicted in the 1985 death of a police officer in
Mobile County.
The Alabama Supreme Court issued the order setting May 12 as the
date for execution. Madison was one of three death row inmates
for which the Alabama Attorney General's Office had requested
the court in February to set execution dates.
The inmates are being held on death row at Holman Correctional
Facility at Atmore where the executions take place.
An attorney with the Equal Justice Initiative representing
Madison had not responded to a request for comment prior to
publication of this story.
Madison, who has been on death row since Nov. 12, 1985, was
convicted in September 1985 and sentenced to death in Mobile
County in the April 18, 1985 slaying of police Officer Julius
Schulte, who was responding to a domestic disturbance call.
Madison was on parole at the time.
Madison had three trials, the last one in 1994. State appellate
courts twice had sent the case back to Mobile County, once for a
violation based on race-based jury selection and once based on
improper testimony for an expert witness for the prosecution. He
is one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates.
Madison's attorney in February filed a motion seeking to stop
his execution, saying Madison suffers "from significant
cognitive decline, acute mental health disorders, and severe
medical problems that render him incompetent to be executed." A
Mobile County judge has set an April 14 competency hearing for
Madison.
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Re: ~ Vernon Madison, 12 May '16, (AL) ~
By: BuzzC Date: May 10, 2016, 2:41 pm
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Alabama judge denies stay of execution for death row inmate
Vernon Madison--
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Update: In an order issued Monday evening and filed in online
court records Tuesday, Mobile County Circuit Judge Robert H.
Smith dismissed Madison's petition seeking a stay of execution.
Vernon Madison, now 65, was charged and convicted in the April
18, 1985, slaying of police Officer Julius Schulte, who was
responding to a domestic disturbance call.
On May 6, the Alabama Supreme Court denied Madison's request for
a stay.
Attorneys for the state filed a response asking the federal
court to allow the execution to go forward as scheduled. They
say Madison did not exhaust his state appeals before filing the
federal petition and that his attorneys have not proven he lacks
a rational understanding of the state's move to execute him.
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Re: ~ Vernon Madison, 12 May '16, (AL) ~
By: BuzzC Date: May 12, 2016, 9:24 am
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Alabama prepares to execute man for killing police officer--
Thursday, May 12, 2016
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is preparing to execute a man
convicted in the 1985 killing of a police officer.
Vernon Madison is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection
at 6 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Atmore.
Madison will be the second inmate executed in Alabama this year.
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Re: ~ Vernon Madison, 12 May '16, (AL) ~
By: BuzzC Date: May 13, 2016, 7:45 pm
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U.S. courts delay execution of killer of Alabama policeman--
Friday, May 13, 2016
A U.S. appeals court put on hold Thursday's scheduled execution
of a 65-year-old man convicted of murdering a police officer in
1985, ordering a review of his mental competency after his
lawyers said he suffers from dementia.
Vernon Madison, one of Alabama's longest-serving death row
inmates, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m.
(2300 GMT) at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in
Atmore.
The stay of execution issued by Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals put off what would have been the 15th execution
in the United States this year and the second in Alabama.
The state then asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and
allow the execution to go forward. The court narrowly denied
that request, though the four conservative justices would have
granted the motion to lift the stay of execution, the order
said.
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Re: ~ Vernon Madison, (AL) ~
By: BuzzC Date: October 2, 2018, 8:39 pm
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U.S. high court mulls death penalty for killer who forgot
crime--
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices, delving into
the issue of aging prisoners with dementia, struggled on Tuesday
over whether a convicted Alabama murderer should be spared the
death penalty because strokes have erased his memory of
committing the crime.
Vernon Madison, 68, was convicted and sentenced to death for
fatally shooting a Mobile police officer in 1985.
During an hour of arguments, the justices heard from both
Alabama and Madison's attorney that severe cognitive decline
could preclude a state from executing inmates who cannot
understand what was happening to them. But it remained unclear
whether the justices will decide Madison fits that criteria.
The justices, on the second day of their new term, must
determine whether executing Madison would violate the U.S.
Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and
unusual punishment. A ruling is due by June.
Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, a death penalty critic, said
there are many aging inmates who, like Madison, have spent
decades on death row.
"So this will become a more common problem," Breyer said.
The Supreme Court has previously imposed limits on capital
punishment for mentally incompetent or intellectually disabled
people.
Madison suffered several strokes in recent years, resulting in
brain damage, dementia and memory impairment, according to court
papers. He is legally blind, cannot walk unassisted and speaks
with a slur.
The dispute centers on whether Madison can understand the
connection between his crime and the planned punishment. Alabama
has said Madison can understand the link. A federal appeals
court ruled last year that he cannot.
The justices ruled last year that Alabama could execute Madison,
but on Jan. 25 they then halted his execution and a month later
agreed to hear his case.
Madison shot Julius Schulte, a police officer in Mobile, twice
in the back of the head as Schulte supervised Madison's move out
of his former girlfriend's house, according to court papers.
Attorneys for Alabama and Madison told the justices memory loss
alone cannot exempt someone from execution.
Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, asked Madison's
attorney Bryan Stevenson whether he conceded that "simply
blacking out, you don't remember the crime" was not enough.
"It doesn't make them incompetent," Stevenson agreed, but asked
the justices to bar execution when "someone has a disability
that renders them incapable of orienting to time or place."
Liberal justices including Sonia Sotomayor appeared to agree
Madison should be spared, but conservative Justice Samuel Alito
noted that experts evaluating the case said Madison understands
the meaning of the death sentence and certain other details.
"Nothing about Mr. Madison's conditions impact the state's
interest in seeking retribution for a heinous crime," Alabama
Deputy Attorney General Thomas Govan said.
The court, one justice short amid the fight over President
Donald Trump's nominee Brett Kavanaugh, is currently split 4-4
between conservatives and liberals.
Madison, who is black, was sentenced to death in 1994 in his
third trial. His first two convictions were thrown out on appeal
for racial discrimination in jury selection and other
prosecutorial misconduct.
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