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America executes oldest death row inmate with part of his brain missing

USA: Outrage erupted across America last night after the country executed its oldest death row inmate – a man who was mentally impaired from a work accident that removed a large portion of his brain.

After a final appeals failed at the US supreme court Cecil Clayton, 74, was executed by lethal injection.

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