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Willie Burgess Alabama Death Row

Willie Burgess was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murder of woman during a robbery. According to court documents Willie Burgess would enter the victims shop and in the process of robbing it would shoot and kill the owner. Willie Burgess would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

Willie Burgess 2021 Information

Inmate:	BURGESS, WILLIE JR
AIS:	0000Z568

Institution:	HOLMAN PRISON

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“[O]n the morning of January 26, 1993, [Burgess] rode his bicycle to the Decatur *146 Bait [and Tackle] Shop located at 214 Sixth Avenue, S.E., Decatur, Alabama, with the intention of committing a theft. He entered the shop and had a dialogue with the owner, Mrs. Louise Crow. The defendant then left the shop, returned home, changed clothes and walked back to the shop. The defendant again entered the shop, pulled out a .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol, demanded money from the cash drawer and ordered the owner to enter the shop’s bathroom. Once the victim had entered the bathroom, the defendant shot her in the face at close range, killing her. He then stole the victim’s car, picked up his girlfriend and her child and headed toward Huntsville, Alabama. The defendant was arrested in route to Huntsville, and at the time of arrest he was in possession of the victim’s car, a .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol and a quantity of currency.”

After being returned to the custody of the Decatur police, Burgess made an admission to police detectives. Then, as he was walked through the parking lots between the Decatur City Hall and the Morgan County Jail, Burgess, while being videotaped by a cameraman for a local television station, made another admission in response to questions from reporters in which he admitted killing Mrs. Crow.

https://law.justia.com/cases/alabama/court-of-appeals-criminal/1998/cr-93-2054-0.html

Robin Myers Alabama Death Row

Robin Myers was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for a murder committed during a robbery. According to court documents Robin Myers broke into a home in order to commit a robbery and in the process stabbed two people in which one of them died. Robin Myers stole a videotape recorder from the home. Robin Myers was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. There are claims of innocence in this case

Robin Myers 2021 Information

Inmate:	MYERS, ROBIN
AIS:	0000Z563

Institution:	HOLMAN PRISON

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The evidence in this case showed that [Robin Myers] unlawfully entered the home of Ludie Mae Tucker in the middle of the night. He stabbed Mrs. Tucker, and then ran into a bedroom, where he stabbed her houseguest and cousin, Marie Dutton. Mrs. Dutton survived the attack, but Mrs. Tucker died as a result of her injuries. As [Robin Myers] was leaving the house, he took a videocassette recorder. He later traded this videocassette recorder for crack cocaine. [Robin Myers] testified that he did not kill Mrs. Tucker or stab Mrs. Dutton. He stated that he found the videocassette recorder in some bushes behind his house and that he took it and traded it for cocaine.”

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-supreme-court/1284605.html

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Robin “Rocky” Myers is a 53-year-old intellectually disabled black man who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1993 for a crime he did not commit.

With a vote of 9-to-3, an overwhelmingly white jury in Decatur, Ala., recommended that Robin be sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole. The elected judge presiding over the case overrode the jury and ordered his execution instead.

The United States Supreme Court recently found this practice of judicial override to be unconstitutional and struck down Florida’s capital sentencing scheme, which allowed override. Alabama is now one of only two states that allows for such judicial override and it stands alone in giving a judge no guidance in exercising this power.

In the last 15 years, shockingly, Alabama is the only state to ever use judicial override to sentence someone to death. To quote U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, “[I]t approaches the most literal sense of the word ‘arbitrary’ to put one to death in the face of a contrary jury determination where it is accepted that the jury had indeed responsibly carried out its task.”

In all of Rocky’s post-conviction proceedings, he and his counsel have argued that he should not be executed because he is innocent and intellectually disabled. Additionally, Alabama’s decision to execute Rocky is a direct violation of a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found the execution of an intellectually disabled inmate to be cruel and unusual and, therefore, in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. And because Rocky’s counsel abandoned him in the midst of his post-conviction proceedings, these claims have never been fully addressed by any court.

Rocky has no further appellate process available to him, and is subject to receive an execution date at any time. Your signature to this petition is not a vote for his innocence. It is a vote for justice, and one that will hopefully compel the state of Alabama and Gov. Robert Bentley to grant Rocky clemency from an elected judge’s arbitrary decision and allow him to serve the sentence the jury of his peers intended –– Life Without the Possibility of Parole.

To learn more about or to keep up with the status of Rocky’s case, please visit www.clemencyforrockymyers.wordpress.com.

Roy Perkins Alabama Death Row

Roy Perkins was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the kidnapping and murder of a woman. According to court documents Roy Perkins, who was a convicted sex offender, would kidnap the woman and would later shoot her in the chest. The woman was able to get to help however she would die en route to the hospital. Roy Perkins would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Roy Perkins 2021 Information

Inmate:	PERKINS, ROY EDWARD
AIS:	0000Z564

Institution:	HOLMAN PRISON

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“On August 9, 1990, in north Tuscaloosa County, [Perkins] came to the residence of Cathy Gilliam, who was there alone except for her daughter. [Perkins], who was identified at trial, kidnapped the victim, Cathy Gilliam, with a handgun while victim’s daughter watched. [Perkins] then drove away with the victim, and the daughter called for help.

“About an hour later, [Gilliam] showed up at Maudeen Hoods’ residence, stating she’d been shot, was dying and needed help. Ms. Hood called the authorities. [State Trooper Eldon] Willingham got information on the suspect, his vehicle and direction of travel from [Gilliam]. He noted that [Gilliam] had been shot in the chest but not through the front of her shirt. The evidence was that [Gilliam] also did not have gunpowder stippling on her shirt. [Gilliam] was taken to a hospital but died before getting there. The bullet wound had an exit point just to the right of center on her back. [Gilliam] also had a stab wound near her clavicle and a broken bone in her neck.

“Chief Deputy Butch Hopson of Fayette, Alabama, on August 8, 1990, heard about a shooting or kidnapping by [Perkins] or someone fitting his description, over his radio. He was driving toward Tuscaloosa County and saw [Perkins], whom he recognized, coming toward him in a truck. He turned around and went after [Perkins], who drove to a road and abandoned the truck. The truck had been missing from its owner along with a long rifle and a .357 Magnum caliber handgun. The truck was abandoned less than a mile from [Perkins’s] mother’s house.

“[Perkins] was captured a few days later in the woods after a big manhunt. It was later learned that [Perkins] had gone to Darlene Hall’s house, which was near [Gilliam’s] house, just before going to [Gilliam’s] house. Ms. Hall got suspicious of [Perkins], who asked to use her phone, and had seen his picture in the newspaper as a suspected rapist. She ran him off with an unloaded rifle. [Perkins] left in a truck.

“[Perkins] had been in prison for rape, second degree, and was out on parole. About August 1, 1990, he had asked his cousin, [B.P.], to help him. [Perkins] drove her to a block building near his mother’s house. [Perkins] pulled a knife on her and forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. She was able to escape eventually. About August 6, 1990, [D.W.] was grabbed by [Perkins] and taken to the same block building at knifepoint and forced to have repetitive sexual intercourse and sodomy with [Perkins]. Her hands were tied during the sexual attacks.

“At trial, evidence proved beyond a reasonable doubt that [Perkins] kidnapped [Gilliam] with intent to violate her sexually or to inflict physical injury on her and that, during this kidnapping, [Perkins] intentionally caused [Gilliam’s] death by shooting her with a gun, specifically a .357 magnum caliber handgun.”

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1615208.html

Casey McWhorter Alabama Death Row

Casey McWhorter was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for a murder committed during a robbery. According to court documents Casey McWhorter and two teenage accomplices, including the son of the victim, would ambush the victim and murder him before robbing the home. Casey McWhorter would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

Casey McWhorter 2021 Information

Inmate:	MCWHORTER, CASEY A
AIS:	0000Z562

Institution:	HOLMAN PRISON

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“The court finds beyond a reasonable doubt that approximately three weeks before February 18, 1993, the 18-year-old Casey McWhorter conspired with 15 and 16 year old codefendants (the 15-year-old codefendant being the son of the victim) to kill the victim in order to rob him of a substantial sum of money and to obtain other property from his home. This conspiracy was discussed from time to time until February 18, 1993. On that date a fourth party, who was aware of the plot, dropped Casey McWhorter and the 16-year-old codefendant off on a highway a few blocks from the victim’s home at about 3:00 p.m. The fourth party and the 15-year-old son of the victim rode around until they met the defendant and the other codefendant at a pre-arranged spot at 8:00 o’clock that evening.

“Casey McWhorter and the 16-year-old proceeded on foot to the victim’s home and let themselves in the unlocked empty house. They knew that the victim was not expected home for approximately three to four hours. They spent this three-to four-hour period of time in the home going through it, gathering up various items that they wanted to keep and making silencers for two .22 rifles which were there in the home. One silencer was made out of a plastic jug and filled with napkins and attached to the rifle by duct tape. The other was made by wrapping a pillow around the barrel of the second rifle and holding it in place with duct tape and electrical wire. The rifles were ‘test-fired’ into a mattress to see if the silencers were accomplishing the desired effect.

When the victim arrived home, he first saw the 16-year-old, grabbed the rifle he was holding and began to struggle over it. At that point, the Casey McWhorter fired the first shot into the victim’s body. Between the two conspirators on the scene, the victim was shot at least 11 times. After the victim was down on the floor, the defendant fired at least one more round into his head to assure that he was dead. They took his wallet and various other items from the home and left in the victim’s pickup truck. They met the other two parties at the pre-arranged spot, took the victim’s truck out into the woods and stripped it. The spoils were divided between the four individuals. The toxicologist testified that the victim died of multiple gunshot wounds, there being 11 entrance wounds and 2 exit wounds. The aorta and another major blood vessel were pierced, causing approximately half a gallon of blood to accumulate in the chest cavity and at least one bullet was removed from the brain.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1474353.html

David Roberts Alabama Death Row

David Roberts was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for a murder committed during a robbery. According to court documents David Roberts would murder the victim while she lay sleeping on a couch before robbing the home and setting it on fire. David Roberts would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

David Roberts 2021 Information

Inmate:	ROBERTS, DAVID LEE
AIS:	0000Z560

Institution:	HOLMAN PRISON

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Roberts had been a houseguest of Wendell Satterfield. On April 22, 1992, Satterfield’s girlfriend, Annetra Jones, was sleeping on a couch in Satterfield’s den. Roberts left his job and went to Satterfield’s residence around noon on that day. He packed his belongings, stole money from the victim’s wallet, and shot her three times in the head with a .22 caliber rifle while she slept. Jones died within seconds. Roberts poured flammable liquid on her body and on the floor in the den, then set fire to a piece of paper he had placed under the couch. In the bedroom in which Roberts had stayed, which was in the basement of Satterfield’s house, Roberts set another fire, causing major damage to the room and sending smoke throughout the house. Roberts left the house, taking with him a variety of items, such as the murder weapon and other guns. He hid this evidence, but later led the police to the hiding place.

Law enforcement authorities questioned Roberts and he gave several statements. He admitted shooting Jones and setting Satterfield’s house on fire. In his last statement, Roberts said that he had set the house on fire to get back at Satterfield for threatening his parents; he said that he did not know that Jones would be at the house and he did not know why he shot her.

At the sentencing hearing before the jury, the State presented evidence that Roberts had previously been convicted of second degree burglary and first degree theft, and that he had been on parole for less than two months when he committed this crime. Roberts’s brother, Terry, and his mother, Brenda, testified that Roberts was nervous, slept poorly, and had a history of drug abuse. Terry Roberts also testified that two days before the murder, Satterfield made what could be construed as a threat against their father.

At the sentence hearing before the court, Roberts testified that he was sorry about what had happened. He stated that an “older individual” had threatened to kill his parents, that the pressure had built up over time, that he had no one to turn to for help, and that he did what he thought he needed to do at the time. He also testified that the “older individual” told him to burn the house and to shoot Annetra Jones.

After considering the evidence and the jury’s sentencing recommendation, the trial court weighed the aggravating and mitigating circumstances and sentenced Roberts to death.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1241470.html