Oklahoma Executes Man Despite Mental Illness, Brain Injury

Oklahoma executed a man on Thursday morning despite his lawyers’ argument that he suffered from a serious mental illness.

The death was declared benjamin cole at 10:22 in the morning at the state penitentiary of Oklahoma in McAlester. He was the sixth executed in Oklahoma since the restoration of capital punishment in the state in October 2021.

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The lawyers of Cole They did not deny that he killed their nine-month-old daughter, Brianna Cole, by forcibly bending her backwards until she snapped her spine and tore her aorta. But they maintained that Cole suffered from serious mental illness and brain injury which had worsened in recent years.

Cole he refused medical care and neglected his personal hygiene, hoarded food and lived in a dark cell with little or no communication with staff or other inmates, his lawyers told the board of pardons and parole at a hearing last month.

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“His condition has continued to worsen throughout this year,” said the lawyer Katrina Conrad-Legler.

The board voted 4-1 to reject the clemency request, and a judge ruled weeks ago that Cole was fit to be executed. The Supreme Court rejected two requests to stop the execution, on Wednesday and Thursday morning.

Source: Elcomercio

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