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A judge in Alabama has issued to stay for the upcoming execution of a convict, while state officials investigate whether he is capable of killing him.
59 -year -old David Lee Roberts was supposed to be executed on August 21 for the death of Antatra Jones 1992, but the Marion County Circuit Judge Lee Carter was temporarily on execution until it could be determined that Roberts has “rational understanding” what would happen to him.
“Or similarly, the issue is whether the concept of the reality of the petitioner is so impaired that he cannot understand the meaning and purpose of execution or his crime and his punishment,” he has written in the ruling.
Carter said that the execution would continue until Alabama’s Mental Health Department concluded its report on Roberts.
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59 -year -old David Lee Roberts was scheduled for execution on August 21 for a 1992 sentence. (Alabama Department of Reform through AP)
Roberts was designed to die by nitrogen gas, a controversial method Alabama began using last year when convict Kenneth Smith was killed in January 2024.
The lawyers representing Roberts argue that their death sentence should be suspended as they have come to know of paranoid schizophrenia.
Roberts’ lawyers filed in a court, saying that he listens to voices and was confused, saying that he recently tried to burn the tattoo with his hand and legs as he believed that he was “trying to control his thoughts.”
His lawyers said, “This evidence shows that Mr. Roberts can be executed because his confusion has prevented him from being a factual or rational understanding of the reason.”
The judges were temporarily stopped at execution until it could be determined whether Roberts has “rational understanding” what will happen to him. (AP)
Alabama is not appealing to the Attorney General’s office, although the state has asked that qualification evaluation has accelerated.
The US Supreme Court ruled that the state cannot execute the prisoners who are crazy and do not understand their upcoming execution and its causes, but the Alabama law does not provide a clear standard of the courts that the courts should know what the courts should know in evaluating the merit of a person.
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Roberts was designed to die by nitrogen gas, a controversial method Alabama began using last year. (AP)
Roberts killed Jones in Marion County on 22 April 1992, while he was living in a house, his lover lived inside.
The prosecutors said that Roberts arrived at home, packed their luggage, stole the money and shot Jones three times with a .22 caliber rifle, while she was sleeping on the couch. Then he put flammable liquid on his body and floor and set the house on fire.
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The gamblers blamed him for capital murder and voted 7-5 that he had life in jail without parole. However, a judge abolished the recommendation and sentenced him to death.
Alabama no longer allows judges to override the jury sentences in capital matters.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
