CLEVELAND (AP) — An inmate is too mentally ill to be executed for the killings of his wife and brother-in-law, a judge ruled Friday in a decision that comes just a week after the governor issued a reprieve hours before the man was set to die.
“Abdul Awkal presently lacks the capacity to form a rational understanding as to the reason the state intends to execute him,” Cuyahoga County Judge Stuart Friedman said. “Abdul Awkal may not be executed unless and until he has been restored to competency.”
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