U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Singleton Appeal
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal
from an Arkansas death row inmate.
The man has been forced to take anti-psychotic drugs that made
him mentally competent to be executed. Charles Singleton argued his
constitutional rights were violated. A lower court ruled that the
forced medication was constitutionally acceptable because it was
part of appropriate treatment for Singleton`s paranoid
schizophrenia. Singleton wanted the high court to review that lower
court`s ruling.
Singleton was convicted of killing Hamburg grocer Mary Lou York
in 1979, stabbing her to death during a robbery. She identified him
as her attacker before dying.
The high court rejected the appeal Monday.
