In 5-3 decision, justices threw out Alabama state court ruling that Vernon Madison was legally eligible to be executed
US states may not execute prisoners who cannot rationally understand the reasons for their punishment, the supreme court ruled on Wednesday, siding with an Alabama man who in recent years has suffered strokes and dementia that wiped out his memory of murdering a police officer in 1985. In a 5-3 decision, the justices threw out an Alabama state court ruling that Vernon Madison, 68, was legally eligible to be executed, directing the lower court to reconsider the case.
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