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U.S. Supreme Court Halts Execution of Vernon Madison in Alabama

HeadlineMay 13, 2016

In Alabama, the execution of death row prisoner Vernon Madison has been halted after his attorneys argued dementia has left Madison unable to understand his death sentence. He was convicted of killing a police officer in 1985. In a 4-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution Thursday night, only hours before Madison was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Later in the broadcast, we’ll go to the Holman Correctional Facility to cover another issue there: a 10-day work strike by prisoners protesting severe overcrowding, poor living conditions and the use of unpaid prison labor. We will go behind bars to speak with Kinetik Justice, a prisoner in solitary confinement who helped lead the strikes.

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