Richard Sealey was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for the axe murders of an elderly couple. According to court documents Richard Sealey went to the home of the elderly couple with a number of others and proceeded to murder the victims striking each several times with an axe. Richard Sealey was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Richard Sealey 2021 Information
YOB: 1964
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 6’02”
WEIGHT: 250
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK
MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH
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The evidence at the guilt/innocence phase, construed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, showed the following. Richard Sealey contacted his friend Gregory Fahie by telephone asking for a ride. Fahie asked his friend, Wajaka Battiste, to drive to Sealey’s motel and then to drive Fahie and Fahie’s juvenile girlfriend, Deandrea Carter, to Carter’s grandparents’ house. Upon arriving at Carter’s grandparents’ house, Sealey, Carter, and Fahie went inside, while Battiste waited in the car listening to music. While he was in a downstairs bathroom, Fahie first heard a loud noise and then heard Carter knocking on the bathroom door and stating that Richard Sealey was “tripping.” Fahie exited the bathroom and observed Mr. Tubner lying in a pool of blood and Sealey holding Ms. Tubner down and wielding a handgun he had taken from Mr. Tubner. Sealey dragged Ms. Tubner, who had been bound with duct tape, to an upstairs bedroom. Richard Sealey instructed Fahie to search for money, however, when no money was discovered, Richard Sealey instructed Carter to heat a fireplace poker with which Sealey tortured Ms. Tubner in an effort to force her to reveal where she kept her money. Richard Sealey then instructed Carter to find a hammer so he could kill the victims. Carter returned with an ax. Sealey struck Ms. Tubner multiple times in the head with the ax and then went downstairs and did the same to Mr. Tubner, who had crawled a short distance across the living room. Once back in Battiste’s automobile, Sealey stated that he “had to do it” because the victims had seen their faces and further stated that the victims deserved to die because they had mistreated Carter’s mother in the past. Richard Sealey instructed Battiste never to reveal that he had seen Sealey and then added, “I will out your lights.”
The evidence presented in the guilt/innocence phase included the testimony of Fahie and Battiste, Mr. Tubner’s handgun and jewelry that had been discovered in Sealey’s motel room, and testimony about the detection of protein residue consistent with blood on the floor and sink of Sealey’s motel bathroom. Upon our review of the entire record, we conclude that the evidence presented in the guilt/innocence phase was sufficient to authorize rational jurors to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Sealey was guilty on all counts. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).
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