By Jack Elliott Jr.
The Associated Press via MySanAntonio.com
JACKSON, Miss. — If Robert Simon Jr. receives a new medical evaluation with his claim that falling on his head made him mentally incompetent, Mississippi can expect a flood of similar claims from other death row inmates, says Attorney General Jim Hood.
“We’re going to see a rash of knot heads at Parchman,” Hood told The Associated Press on Thursday. “We’ll have to put cameras into every cell on death row because they are all going to claim they fell and bumped their head.”
Simon’s injury, which records show occurred at Parchman in January, was the basis for his attorneys’ claim that he is incompetent to be executed.
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