Here is a recent case from the Alabama Supreme Court in which the court upheld a conviction for felony murder and capital murder. The defendant was charged with two counts of capital murder for the killing of one person, and the Court of Criminal Appeals had reversed the capital murder conviction, holding that the acquittal of one count was an implied acquittal of the other count.
The B'Ham news reports on an upcoming parole hearing:
Eighteen years after finding her daughter dead in her apartment, hogtied in telephone cord and a butcher knife plunged into her back, Margie Caslin
still sobs at the memory.
"It's still hard to talk about it," Caslin said through tears. "It's hard to go over this again and again, but I guess I have to. It's the law."
Joseph Gentry, the AmSouth Bank manager who confessed to killing Kimberly Hill, was tried twice, found guilty twice and sentenced twice to death. But at a parole hearing on Wednesday, he could be set free.
And finally, the Alablawg has this post about a recent Jefferson County case in which the judge imposed a death sentence in spite of the jury's 10-2 recommendation for life.
