Alabama prepares to execute man for killing police officer
May 12, 2016 at 7:46 a.m.
| Updated May 12, 2016 at 7:46 a.m.
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Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted in the 1985 killing of a police officer.
Vernon Madison is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Atmore.
Madison was convicted of killing Mobile police Officer Julius Schulte. Schulte had responded to a domestic call involving Madison. Prosecutors said Madison crept up and shot Schulte in the back of the head as he sat in his police car.
A circuit court last month ruled Madison was competent to be executed despite a decline in his cognitive abilities after a stroke.
Madison would be the second inmate executed in Alabama this year.