article_snippet: a sawmill accident decades ago brought me up here to execute me,' Cecil Clayton uttered before Cecil Clayton was put to death by lethal injection after Governor Jay Nixon denied a clemency request.
article_snippet: Clayton - despite Clayton brain injury - wasn't capable of understanding Clayton circumstances.
article_snippet: Clayton had - literally - a hole in Clayton head,' said Elizabeth Unger Carlyle, one of Clayton attorneys, following Clayton death on Tuesday night. '
article_snippet: A brain scan shared by Clayton lawyers show a significant section of Clayton brain is missing .
article_snippet: There is no doubt in my mind that Cecil knew what Cecil had done...
article_snippet: Cecil Clayton's actions is what put an innocent man to death.'
article_snippet: Cecil Clayton's brother had testified that the sawmill accident led to Cecil Clayton's breakup from Clayton's brother wife, alcohol abuse and violent outbursts.
article_snippet: him called on a doctor to examine Cecil Clayton.
article_snippet: But Cecil Clayton's lawyers said, while Cecil Clayton had conversations in which Cecil Clayton understood Cecil Clayton was about to be executed, Cecil Clayton would later forget that conversation ever happened.
article_snippet: Cecil Clayton family also called for a fair hearing on the issue.
article_snippet: Cecil Clayton family and lawyers had argued that Cecil Clayton was child-like and did not understand the significance of Cecil Clayton death penalty.
article_snippet: His family and lawyers had called for Cecil Clayton execution at Bonne Terre (pictured) to be stopped . '
article_snippet: Cecil Clayton is brain-damaged, and talking with Cecil Clayton is like talking to a child,' Cecil Clayton's daughter, Jena Clayton, said during Cecil Clayton clemency petition, the Kansas City Star reported. '
highlights_snippet: In 1972, 24 years before he shot dead a police officer, Cecil Clayton suffered a sawmill accident that speared a shard of wood into Cecil Clayton head .
  
highlights_snippet: he argued that Cecil Clayton didn't understand he death sentence .
  