JIM SUHR, Associated Press

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s oldest death row inmate was scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the 1996 shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy after the state’s governor and the U.S. Supreme Court denied last-minute appeals to spare his life. Attorneys for 74-year-old Cecil Clayton had argued that Clayton has brain damage from a 1972 sawmill accident and worsening dementia.