Hello, welcome to your extra morning show.

My name is Philip DeFranco, and this morning I wanted to talk about a very interesting

Supreme Court case.

You may have never heard of this case, but it is Madison v. Alabama.

Back in October, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Madison v Alabama.

And at the center of that case, you had Vernon Madison who was on death row in Alabama and he's suing for his life.

Which before we get to the now, we should really talk about the initial crime.

Back in 1985 Madison was arrested and charged with attempted murder of his estranged

girlfriend Cheryl Green and of murdering police officer Julius Shulty.

Reported Shulty was at Green's residence to investigate a missing child report there and then Madison arrived.

And Madison, who was out on parole at the time, thought Schultz was there to arrest him, so he fled and then eventually returned with a pistol and

he shot Schultz twice in the back of the head, which killed him instantly, and then he also fired into

Greens back as well as she shielded her 11-year-old daughter, though luckily she ended up surviving her wounds.

And after two missed trials, we fast forward to Madison being found guilty in 1994 and he is sentenced to death.

And a big note here is he was sentenced to death after a judge overruled a jury's recommendation

that he be given life without parole.

Now over the years Madison has sued with a few different arguments in the past that have actually

delayed his original execution date of 2016 and we'll hop around a little here.

In 2017 Madison and his lawyer sued over a 2017 law change in Alabama that made it so the trial

judges cannot override a jury sentence

recommendation. Prior to that his lawyers argued that he was too incompetent to

be executed and so in basic terms there that means that he doesn't have the

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