Arbitrariness
,Mental Illness
,Race
,Executions Overview
,May 11, 2016
UPDATE: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit stayed Madison’s execution, ordering ora…
Mental Illness
,Executions Overview
,Jan 23, 2018
Lawyers for 67-year-old Vernon Madison (pictured), a death-row prisoner whose diagnosis of “irreversible and progressive” vascular dementia has left him with no memory of the crime for which he was sentenced to death, have filed a…
Mental Illness
,United States Supreme Court
,Executions Overview
,Nov 08, 2017
Two recent high court rulings have raised questions of whether death-row prisoners are sufficiently mentally impaired to be deemed incompetent to be executed and who gets to make that determination. On November 7, the Arkansas Supreme Cour…
Mental Illness
,Mar 16, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled on March 15 that Alabama death-row prisoner Vernon Madison (pictured) — who was spared execution last May when the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked at 4 – 4 on whe…
Arbitrariness
,Mental Illness
,United States Supreme Court
,Oct 03, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in Madison v. Alabama on October 2, 2018 on whether an Alabama death-row prisoner who has vascul…
Mental Illness
,United States Supreme Court
,Executions Overview
,Mar 01, 2019
The United States Supreme Court has reversed a decision of the
International
,Mental Illness
,United States Supreme Court
,Executions Overview
,Jan 27, 2018
The United States Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Vernon Madison to consider for a second time questions related to his competency to be executed. In a 6 – 3 vote, with Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting…
Mental Illness
,United States Supreme Court
,Executions Overview
,Feb 26, 2018
Less than a week after Alabama halted the failed execution of a terminally ill prisoner whose veins were not suitable …
Mental Illness
,United States Supreme Court
,Feb 25, 2020
Vernon Madison, an Alabama death-row prisoner whose severe dementia led to a major …
