Alabama to Execute Two Murderers: An Alabama man sentenced to death for the 2000 kidnaping, robbery and murder of a Talladega man is scheduled for execution Thursday. Kent Falk of Alabama.com reports that Wayne Eggers, has asked the state to expedite his execution, writing that he neither challenges the method of execution or the drugs that will be used. Murderer Walter Lee Moodey's execution is scheduled for, Monday the 19th. Moody was sentenced to death for the 1989 pipe bomb murder of 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert Vance. Last month, the state called the execution of murderer Doyle Hamm after corrections officials were unable to find a usable vein.
Georgia's "Stocking Strangler" To Die Thursday: A Georgia man, who had been in and out of jail or prison since his teens, is facing execution Thursday for the 1977 rapes and murders of three women aged 67, 74 and 89. Carlton Gary became known as the stocking strangler for the nine rapes and seven murders of older women, all but one living in the same neighborhood between September 1977 and April 1978. Tim Chitwood of the Ledger-Inquirer reports that Gary confessed to burglarizing the victim's homes but claimed another man committed the rapes and murders. After multiple reviews over nearly 30 years, the Georgia Supreme Court halted Gary's execution in 2009 for DNA testing. While the sample tested did not match Gary, a later court review found the results did not disprove his guilt. A bid for clemency was rejected last week and last minute appeals have been filed.
Georgia's "Stocking Strangler" To Die Thursday: A Georgia man, who had been in and out of jail or prison since his teens, is facing execution Thursday for the 1977 rapes and murders of three women aged 67, 74 and 89. Carlton Gary became known as the stocking strangler for the nine rapes and seven murders of older women, all but one living in the same neighborhood between September 1977 and April 1978. Tim Chitwood of the Ledger-Inquirer reports that Gary confessed to burglarizing the victim's homes but claimed another man committed the rapes and murders. After multiple reviews over nearly 30 years, the Georgia Supreme Court halted Gary's execution in 2009 for DNA testing. While the sample tested did not match Gary, a later court review found the results did not disprove his guilt. A bid for clemency was rejected last week and last minute appeals have been filed.
Did you miss the news that the California Supreme Court reversed a death sentence after the AG admitted that prosecutors presented grotesquely false evidence? http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S111336.PDF
Sorry, should have said reversed a death sentence and conviction. It's not even clear there was a murder.
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In a not-so-shocking development, Alabama inmate's former lawyer files petition for stay and a writ of certiorari, saying inmate doesn't know what he wants, but that HE knows inmate doesn't want to be executed.
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/03/former_attorneys_for_death_row.html
My mistake, I thought you had a particular interest in the death penalty in California. Maybe if Prop 66 had been fully in place Mr. Benevides Figueroa would be dead by now.
Ours is a small office, I am the one who primarily follows the capital cases, and I am on vacation. The sarcasm in your last comment is uncalled for.
I do not write the News Scan even when I am in the office, BTW, so it does not represent my particular interests.
Looking over the case quickly, it appears that the prosecution relied on its experts. I didn't see an allegation that they knowingly presented false evidence.
One person in this case, though, did knowingly falsify evidence: an investigator for the Habeas Corpus Resource Center.
I did not see anything in the opinion to support an assertion that the result would have been different if the Prop. 66 reforms had been in place. On the contrary, it likely would have reached the same result in far less than the 16 years that the California Supreme Court took to resolve the petition.