U.S. Supreme Court Halts Execution Of Man Because He Cannot Remember His Crime

The U.S. Supreme Court halted the planned execution on Thursday of an Alabama man convicted of murdering a police officer in 1985 after attorneys petitioned to spare the man's life because he suffered several strokes that left him unable to remember the crime. Vernon Madison, 67, has spent more than three decades on death row for killing Mobile police officer Julius Schulte. "The via IFTTT