Psychologist: Oklahoman Charged in Beheading Wants Execution

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Psychologist: Oklahoman Charged in Beheading Wants Execution

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NORMAN, Okla. — Oct 26, 2015, 2:14 PM ET

A psychologist says a 31-year-old man charged with first-degree murder in the beheading of a co-worker at a food-processing plant in suburban Oklahoma City wants to be executed and won't help his attorneys prepare his defense.

Dr. Anita Russell testified Monday at a rare competency trial that will decide whether Alton Nolen can be tried for murder in the September 2014 attack.

Nolen is accused of cutting off 54-year-old Colleen Hufford's head with a knife at the Vaughan Foods plant in Moore.

Russell said Nolen is intellectually impaired. She said he has an IQ of 69 and that a normal IQ is 100.

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[patsimp]

1. Give him what he wants.

[KamaAina]

2. Why? He beheaded someone.

Clearly life without parole is worse for him than being executed. Besides, Russ, we're Griswolds, and we don't execute people with IQs of 69.

[patsimp]

6. it's not clearly worse.

[NaturalHigh]

3. This is fairly simple for me.

Drop the request for the death penalty. Give him life without parole. Problem solved, and everybody's happy (except Nolen).

[Chan790]

4. I don't know about OK...

but most places won't permit the execution of someone that far below normal IQ range.

Even if sentenced to death, he can't be executed without being proven to be in his right mind and mentally-competent at time of execution...and a 69 IQ probably isn't going to cut it.

[0rganism]

5. can OK even do executions anymore?

i heard they were running low on lethal injection supplies, trying to smuggle them in from India etc. maybe that was a different state?