Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for killing his 9-month-old daughter in 2002. Benjamin Cole is set to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He is 57.
Attorneys for Benjamin Cole do not dispute that he killed Brianna Cole by forcibly bending the infant backward, breaking her spine and tearing her aorta, but argue that he is both severely mentally ill and that he has a growing lesion on his brain that has continued to worsen while he has been in prison.
Cole has refused medical attention and ignored his personal hygiene, hoarding food and living in a darkened cell with little to no communication with staff or fellow prisoners, his attorneys“His condition has continued to decline over the course of this year,” Cole’s attorney Katrina Conrad-Legler said.
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