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Toforest Onesha Johnson (born February 8, 1973) [1] is an American man on death row for the 1995 murder of Jefferson County deputy sheriff William G. Hardy in Alabama.Johnson's case is controversial and his quest for a new trial has attracted widespread support, from prominent lawyers such as the original prosecutor in his case and Alabama's former attorney general to celebrities such as Kim ...
Walter "Johnny D." McMillian (October 27, 1941 – September 11, 2013) [1] was a pulpwood worker from Monroeville, Alabama, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. His conviction was wrongfully obtained, based on police coercion and perjury.
Bufford was found guilty of murder and robbery on May 19, 1978, and he was sentenced to the death penalty. [1] However, part of the Alabama death penalty law under which Bufford had been convicted was ruled unconstitutional in 1980. [3] Bufford's conviction was overturned and he was given a new trial. [1]
The jury in Smith's first trial found Smith guilty of the murder of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett and recommended to the trial judge that he be executed by a vote of 10–2. [10] For inmates convicted before 2017, the jury issued a sentencing recommendation; if fewer than 10 jurors vote for a death sentence then that constitutes a life sentence.
Alabama executed Derrick Dearman on Thursday, eight years after he massacred five family members of his girlfriend with an ax and a gun in the middle of the night.. Dearman, 36, was convicted of ...
The murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett were a double child murder that occurred in Ozark, Alabama, on August 1, 1999, [4] [5] in which two high school students named J.B Beasley and Tracie Hawlett—both 17—from Dothan, Alabama, disappeared after leaving their homes to celebrate Beasley's birthday on July 31, 1999.
In August 2007, Jamie Mills was tried before a jury at an Alabama state court on two counts of capital murder. Mills's wife, who was called as a witness, testified that she saw her husband wielding a hammer and battering the elderly couple to death. At the end of the trial, Mills was found guilty of both counts of murder by the jury.
A suspect has been arrested following the reported shooting of Alabama stepsisters Kayden Lynch, 19, and Madison Daly, 18, on Christmas Eve. Per Lee County outlet The Observer, 18-year-old Jalen ...