The U.S. Supreme Court has halted the execution of an Alabama inmate whose attorneys argue that dementia has left the 67-year-old unable to remember killing a police officer three decades ago. Justices issued a stay Thursday night, the same evening that Vernon Madison was scheduled to receive a lethal injection […]
South Carolina prisoner found after SECOND escape
An inmate was re-captured in Texas early Friday after his second escape from a maximum security prison in South Carolina, prison officials said. The South Carolina Department of Corrections said in a Twitter message that 46-year-old inmate Jimmy Causey was in custody. Agency spokeswoman Sommer Sharpe says Causey was arrested […]