Re: L&I Ark. To Decide on Delusional Inmate

[Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D.]

"Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Sorry, I find this grisly. Please check out my take: forced medication
to put someone in a state where he can be executed? I go no farther.
Tell me it isn't true.  LDMF.
----------------------Sue Hartigan wrote:------------------------------
> 
> Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Ark. To Decide on Delusional Inmate
> 
> >           PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) -- A death row inmate who is
> >           delusional when not forced to take anti-psychotic
> >           medication pleaded for his life Monday at a hearing on
> >           whether the state can execute him during his moments of
> >           sanity.
> >
> >           Charles Singleton, convicted of killing Mary Lou York
> >           at her grocery store in 1979, told the judge that he
> >           was mentally ill at the time and that a state
> >           prosecutor was out to get him.
> >
> >           ``She is trying to kill me,'' Singleton said, gesturing
> >           toward Assistant Attorney General Kelly Hill. ``I'm
> >           poor. Ms. Hill has all the resources. I have nothing.''
> >
> >           Jefferson County Circuit Judge Fred Davis told
> >           Singleton that the hearing wouldn't address whether he
> >           was guilty, innocent or insane.
> >
> >           The court is to determine whether it's proper for the
> >           state to kill Singleton while he's on medication that
> >           keeps him sane. In general, courts do not allow insane
> >           people to be put to death and have prevented states
> >           from medicating prisoners so they'll be sane enough to
> >           execute.
> >
> >           Last month, two days before Singleton was to be
> >           executed by injection, the state's highest court
> >           stopped it and ordered the case to the circuit court.
> >
> >           His hearing has been held in three stages since March
> >           18. The circuit court's decision is expected by May 22.
> >
> >           Singleton, 39, is a paranoid schizophrenic who has had
> >           delusions that his death sentence was set aside and
> >           that he was being held in prison illegally, doctors
> >           said.
> >
> >           He had been voluntarily taking the anti-psychotic drugs
> >           Prolixin and Cogentin, but when he stopped last summer,
> >           a prison medical panel directed that he be forcibly
> >           medicated to protect himself and others.
> >
> >           Under questioning by Hill Monday, Singleton said he
> >           wants to be off the drugs.
> >
> >           Dr. Walter Oglesby, a prison psychiatrist, said
> >           Singleton's mood changed dramatically when he stopped
> >           taking the drugs.
> >
> >           ``He over the years had been very friendly,'' Oglesby
> >           said. But at a meeting last July, Singleton was ``very
> >           hostile and belligerent.''
> 
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