The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in an execution Jan. 25, roughly 30 minutes before the state was scheduled to carry out the death sentence of 67-year-old Vernon Madison, convicted of the 1985 capital murder of Mobile Police Officer Julius Schulte.

The temporary stay was ordered at around 5:30 p.m. to allow the court to review Madison’s claims of mental incompetency and question the legality of “judicial override;” the jury in Madison’s third trial recommended life in prison, but former Mobile County Judge Ferrell McRae imposed the death penalty.

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