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Post by rayozz on Apr 12, 2015 16:45:15 GMT -6
The Missouri Supreme Court has rejected the claim that a man scheduled to be executed next week is not competent to be executed.
Andre Cole is scheduled to die Tuesday evening by lethal injection for the 1998 stabbing death of a friend of his ex-wife’s. Cole’s lawyers offered the findings of a psychiatrist that Cole is depressed and has symptoms of psychosis, specifically delusions that keep him from understanding why he would be executed.
The Court found that he is competent, in part, by reviewing audio recordings of telephone conversations in which it says Cole demonstrated that he understands his sentence and the reason for it.
Cole’s lawyers still have multiple avenues to attempt to delay or halt his execution. It is scheduled to take place between 6 p.m. April 14 and 5:59 p.m. April 15 at the prison in Bonne Terre.
Cole was convicted of stabbing Anthony Curtis 21 times, after going to confront his ex-wife about the back child support he owed to her. He then attacked his ex-wife, Terri, stabbing her repeatedly, but she survived.
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Post by rayozz on Apr 14, 2015 21:48:36 GMT -6
Heaps of appeals, a stay issued. The government officials kept pushing through the courts and the stay was removed.
“Andre Cole was executed by lethal injection at 10:15 p.m. [CT] on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri for the 1998 murder of Anthony Curtis. He was pronounced dead at 10:24 p.m. [CT],” a Missouri Department of Corrections spokesman told BuzzFeed News.
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said in a statement, “Andre Cole planned and carried out a brutal act of domestic violence because he did not want to provide financial support for his child and his child’s mother. It is my hope that the sentence carried out tonight brings those forever impacted by this tragedy a sense of justice and a measure of closure.”
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