During both trials, prosecutors presented the juries the theory that Woods and Spencer acted in tandem to lure the officers into the apartment to kill them. Jimmy Dill was executed on April 16, 2009, in spite of serious concerns that he did not receive the adequate legal assistance necessary to ensure a reliable conviction and sentence in his case. The State even elicited testimony at trial suggesting that the daughter did not testify under the promise of any lenient treatment. Alabama to execute Nathaniel Woods on Thursday despite questions about his culpability in killing of 3 police officers By Ray Sanchez and Carma Hassan , CNN Updated 0405 GMT (1205 HKT) March 6, 2020 At trial, the State presented a statement from Mr. Peraita that he and Mr. Melson had committed the crime, which Peraita later recanted, and testimony that imprints from Mr. Melson’s shoes matched a footprint found in a ditch five days after the crime. Counsel failed to respond to the prosecutor’s improper argument that executing Mr. Price was “the only way” to prevent him from killing again. Smith’s execution is scheduled to be the first carried out by Alabama, and the third carried out by any state, since the COVID-19 pandemic caused shutdowns and restrictions across the U.S. in March 2020. Nathaniel Woods is on Alabama's death row and set to be executed for the 2004 deaths of three Birmingham police officers. That ruling was reversed by a federal appeals court on procedural grounds. Extensive media publicity surrounded the case, and prosecutors not only failed to disclose information that would have helped the defense case (including the surviving employee’s description of the Black assailant that differed from Mr. Melson’s description) but also engaged in improper argument during the trial (including using hearsay to suggest that Mr. Melson asked his girlfriend to give him an alibi). He was exposed to alcohol at age twelve and drugs at age sixteen. Please pray for these men and women. "I want the new evidence to be brought forward and evaluated by new attorneys. Scheduled Executions. However, the United State Supreme Court later held that it is illegal to bar a person from jury service because of his or her race, regardless of the the defendant’s race. At trial, Houston County District Attorney Douglas Valeska relied on illegal evidence, inflammatory comments, and name-calling to secure a conviction and death sentence. After Woods was put to death, the son of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., who had joined a chorus of calls to halt the execution, called it a "mockery of justice. A federal district court agreed that Mr. McNair’s death sentence could not stand. March 13, 2020 at 9:53 a.m. UTC. The prosecutor felt confident in his race-based exclusions because Mr. Parker is white. His father, who had a history of mental illness, brutalized him physically and psychologically from the time he was a toddler and violently abused his mother. Mr. Wood’s case highlights Alabama’s failure to provide adequate representation to defendants facing the death penalty. This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Willie B. Smith III. He fired numerous lawyers for refusing to argue that he killed the victim because he was “the victim of 3 separate conspiracies 2 of which involve government agencies at different times in the past.” He accused state and federal courts, the prosecution, and his lawyers of participating in the conspiracy against him along with “thousands” of others who pursued him across the United States, and he demonstrated behavior in court that the judge observed was “not following any kind of legal logic” and amounted to “talking in circles.”. He maintained that DNA testing would prove he was not one of the men who committed the rape-murder. His appointed lawyer conceded in closing argument to the jury at the penalty phase that “this is a death by electrocution case.” After he was convicted and sentenced to death, new scientific developments in DNA led Mr. Grayson to file a lawsuit against the State of Alabama seeking access to potentially exculpatory biological evidence that was used against him at trial.

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