- The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the appeal of a death row inmate who argued that he shouldn’t be executed because he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The court, however, said that there is no categorical prohibition on sentencing a person with schizophrenia to death. It also said his claim of incompetency wasn’t ready to be adjudicated since no execution date had been set. Roberts’ attorneys have argued that a competency test administered to Roberts before his trial was incorrectly scored and administered. The sole dissenting justice agreed with Roberts’ attorney and said there was no other evidence pointing to Roberts’ competency.

Source: thestar January 30, 2020 17:55 UTC