A Florida inmate went to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to halt his scheduled execution Tuesday, with an attorney arguing that his exposure to Agent Orange before birth caused long-lasting cognitive and behavioral problems that need to be considered.

News Service of Florida reported that Attorney Terri Backhus on Thursday filed what could be a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court as Wainwright faces execution in the 1994 murder of a woman who was kidnapped from the parking lot of a Lake City supermarket.

The appeal focuses heavily on Wainwright being exposed to Agent Orange as he was conceived about six months after his father returned from serving in the Vietnam War and being exposed to the herbicide. It said little research had been done at the time Wainwright received his death sente

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