Feb. 25 (UPI) -- An Alabama inmate who spent more than 30 years on death row has died, one year after the Supreme Court ruled he should be spared execution because of dementia, his lawyers announced.
Vernon Madison died over the weekend at Holman Prison in Atmore, Ala., at the age of 69, the Equal Justice Initiative said. He was one of the longest-serving inmates on death row in Alabama.