ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri's oldest death row inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court or the governor to spare him from being executed as scheduled today for the 1996 shooting death of a sheriff's deputy. Attorneys for 74-year-old Cecil Clayton argue he has dementia and lingering effects from a 1972 sawmill accident. The Missouri Supreme Court declined to intervene over the weekend.

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