Alabama's governor has turned down a last-minute request for clemency from an Alabama death row inmate scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Holman Prison in Atmore.
Bentley said in a brief statement Wednesday that he saw no reason to overturn the decision of the jury that found Derrick Mason guilty and recommended that he be executed. Mason is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Thursday for the March 24, 1994 shooting death of Huntsville convenience store clerk Angela Cagle.
The 37-year-old Mason is accused of shooting 25-year-old Cagle twice in the face during an early morning robbery. Mason is waiting to hear from a last minute appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court challenging the competency of Mason's counsel during the sentencing phase of his trial.
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