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Melvin Davis Alabama Death Row

Melvin Davis was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for a double murder. According to court documents Melvin Davis was involved in a shootout with the victims and another man. The two victims were shot and killed execution style and the third man would survive his injuries. Melvin Davis would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

Melvin Davis 2022 Information

Inmate: DAVIS, MELVIN

AIS: 0000Z650

Institution: HOLMAN PRISON

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Timothy Ray was twenty-seven years old at the time of his death. He was shot seven times, execution style, at point-blank range. John Bradley was sixty-seven years old at the time of his death and was shot three times, execution style, at point-blank range. Eugene Smith was fifty years old when he was shot execution style in the head. Miraculously, he survived and testified at trial.

Charlie Boswell, Jr., was the target of the murders as he was the informant in a drug case that was pending against Davis and his brother, Princeton Davis. Boswell, Jr., was not at the home when the shootings occurred. The roots of this case stem from an earlier drug sale case against Davis. In 1995 and 1996, Davis sold marijuana, along with his brother Princeton Davis, from his family’s apartment in Gibbs Village. The Montgomery Police Department learned of these drug sales and sent an informant, Charlie Boswell, Jr., to make controlled buys. Boswell made several buys from Princeton Davis and one buy from Davis. Based upon these buys, Davis and his brother were arrested and charged with distribution of marijuana. They were subsequently indicted on the offenses.

On Thanksgiving night, November 29, 1996, Davis met with Singleton and Jointer to go to the Top Flight Disco. The three drove to the club in Singleton’s Chevrolet Nova. They stayed in the club until closing, which was approximately 2:00 a.m. They then left the club in the same automobile, with Davis driving, Jointer in the front passenger seat, and Singleton in the rear passenger seat.

They traveled down High St. to Decatur St. and then turned right on Fairview Ave. Jointer believed that they were taking him to his home which was on Rosa Parks Ave. Instead, at the traffic light at Fairview and Interstate 65, Davis produced a .45 caliber pistol and Singleton produced a .38 caliber pistol, stating, “It’s time.” Jointer knew that they meant it was time to kill the informant. Jointer was unarmed. Davis then drove to Caffey Dr. and then turned onto Loveless Curve, stopping down the street from the house.

They then approached the house. Davis banged on the door at 3325 Loveless Curve until the home owner, Charlie Boswell, Sr., came to it. Davis then stated that he was there to see ‘Lewis.’ Boswell replied that Lewis did not live there but, inquired if he meant ‘Eugene,’ who was Eugene Smith, Mr. Boswell’s close friend and roommate. Davis stated that he did, and Mr. Boswell let all three men inside the house. Present in the house with Mr. Boswell were Timothy Ray, who was asleep on a love seat by the front door in the living room, John Bradley, who was asleep on a couch in the living room, and Eugene Smith, who was in the bedroom at the back of the house. Davis and Singleton went to the door of Mr. Smith’s bedroom and Davis asked, “Is that him?” Singleton replied in the affirmative.

At trial, Mr. Smith positively identified Davis as one of the men standing at his door. At that point, as Mr. Smith described it, the other one walked to him, placed the gun to his ear and fired. Miraculously, he survived but was seriously wounded. Jointer, who was standing in the hallway, heard the shot and was numb with fear. Davis, Singleton, and Jointer then fled the house.

As they were leaving, Davis and Singleton coldly and methodically pumped numerous rounds into Timothy Ray and John Bradley. Mr. Ray was shot seven times at point-blank range with a .45 caliber pistol and a .38 caliber pistol while Mr. Bradley was shot three times at point-blank range with .45 caliber and .38 caliber pistols. [Forty-five] caliber shell casings were found in Eugene Smith’s bedroom and in the living room near the bodies of Mr. Smith and Mr. Ray. [Thirty-eight] caliber and .45 caliber slugs were also found in the house and were recovered from the bodies of the victims. Timothy Ray and John Bradley were shot for no reason except they were in the path of the defendants as they fled. Davis told Jointer that if he ever told anyone about the shootings, he would kill him.

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-…s/1460058.html

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Taurus Carroll Alabama Death Row

Taurus Carroll was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murder of another prisoner. According to court documents Taurus Carroll was already serving a life sentence for a previous murder when he would stab to death another prisoner at the St. Clair County Correctional Facility. Taurus Carroll would be convicted and sentenced to death.

Taurus Carroll 2022 Information

Inmate:	CARROLL, TAURUS
AIS:	0000Z629

Institution:	HOLMAN PRISON

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A 38-year-old twice-convicted killer will remain on Alabama’s Death Row following a ruling on his most recent appeal.

Attorney General Luther Strange today announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the capital murder conviction of Taurus Jermaine Carroll. Carroll was convicted in St. Clair County Circuit Court in September of 2012 for the murder of fellow inmate Michael Turner.

Turner was killed Sept. 14, 2009 at St. Clair County Correctional Facility. Testimony presented at trial showed Carroll accused Turner of taking his cell phone. Though Turner repeatedly denied the theft, Carroll stabbed him multiple times with prison-made knife made from part of an air conditioner vent.

Turner was stabbed 16 times in his head, neck and body. He died in the prison infirmary.

Authorities said Carroll told a correctional officer that he meant to kill Turner. He was arrested the following day by prison investigators.

Turner was serving time for a Montgomery County conviction on conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery first degree. He had been sentenced on Sept. 12, 2007 on the conspiracy charge, and July 17, 2008 on the robbery charge. He had served 2 years and 27 days of his sentences, which was due to end Aug. 17, 2010.

St. Clair County District Attorney Richard Minor prosecuted Carroll in Turner’s slaying. In 2012, Carroll was sentenced to death, and sought to have his conviction reversed on appeal. The Attorney General’s Capital Litigation Division handled the case during the appeals process, arguing for the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to affirm the conviction. The Court did so in a decision issued on Friday.

Carroll already was serving a Feb. 13, 1998 life without parole sentence out of Jefferson County for a murder. Carroll initially was sentenced to death in the 1995 murder of Betty Long in a Kingston laundromat. Long was shot in the abdomen, in front of her daughter, at the family’s laundry business. Ninety dollars was taken in the holdup, along with the daughter’s necklace.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Alfred Bahakel sentenced Carroll to death in 1997, but the Alabama Supreme Court later overruled Bahakel’s sentence. The appeals court said Bahakel didn’t give adequate weight to mitigating circumstances in the case. Carroll was 17 when he killed Long.

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2015/08/birmingham_man_will_remain_on.html

John Calhoun Alabama Death Row

John Calhoun was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the sexual assault and murder. According to court documents John Calhoun would break into the victims home where he would sexually assault the woman and murder her husband. John Calhoun would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

John Calhoun 2022 Information

Inmate:	CALHOUN, JOHN RUSSELL
AIS:	0000Z673

Institution:	ST.CLAIR CORRECTIONAL FAC.

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The State’s evidence tended to show that on May 8, 1998, John Calhoun entered L.P.’s¹ and Tracy Phillips’s home in Talledega and shot and killed Tracy Phillips. L.P. testified that on the evening of May 8 her neighbor telephoned her to tell her that there was a man looking in the windows of her house. L.P. told her husband, Tracy, and Tracy went to check outside. When Tracy returned to the house Calhoun, who was wearing a stocking mask over his face, was following behind him with a gun. L.P. said that she knew that the man in the mask was Calhoun because he had been to their house that day and she had also seen him when she had been posting signs earlier that day for a yard sale she was having. L.P. said that she ran upstairs to one of the bedrooms to hide her daughter and her daughter’s friend and locked the bedroom door behind her. Moments later, she said, Tracy yelled from behind the door that Calhoun had a gun to his head and that if she did not open the door John Calhoun would kill him. She complied and Calhoun entered the bedroom.

Tracy pleaded for their lives and offered him money and jewelry. Calhoun declined and told L.P. to take off her clothes, get on the bed, and spread her legs. L.P. complied. Calhoun pushed Tracy’s head between his wife’s legs, held the gun to the back of Tracy’s head, and pulled the trigger. The coroner testified that Tracy died of a gunshot wound to the back of his head, which severed his brain stem.

After shooting Tracy, Calhoun dragged L.P. downstairs, where he raped, sodomized, and beat her. She said that at one point she struggled with Calhoun for the gun, he became enraged, and he pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger, but the gun did not fire. Calhoun then raped her again and told her to get any money that she had upstairs. She refused to go back upstairs because her husband’s body was there, but she told Calhoun that she had jewelry in a downstairs bathroom. L.P. gave him some jewelry, he threw some of it down, and he left. L.P. then telephoned emergency 911.

A person matching Calhoun’s description was seen fleeing the murder scene. Neighbors also saw Calhoun’s car near the murder scene. One neighbor telephoned emergency 911. Police issued a “BOLO” for Calhoun’s vehicle. After police were unsuccessful in locating Calhoun’s vehicle, Charles Hedrick, a sheriff in the Talladega County Sheriff’s Department, went to the area where Calhoun’s mother lived and found Calhoun’s vehicle hidden in some bushes. The next morning police returned to the area and conducted an extensive search. Officer Wren Cooley of the Talladega Police Department spotted Calhoun in the area, pursued him on foot, but lost him. At one residence police obtained consent to search the homeowner’s house and discovered Calhoun hiding under a bed.

https://www.anylaw.com/case/calhoun-v-state/court-of-criminal-appeals-of-alabama/04-28-2005/gJ-5RmYBTlTomsSBTvs8

Jerry Bryant Alabama Death Row

Jerry Bryant was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the kidnapping and murder of a man. According to court documents Jerry Bryant would pick up two men and they would drive around for a while. One of the men would get out of the car and the other stayed with Bryant. Jerry Bryant would rob and murder the man later on and dispose of the body. Jerry Bryant would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Jerry Bryant 2022 Information

Inmate:	BRYANT, JERRY DEVANE
AIS:	0000Z644

Institution:	HOLMAN PRISON

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On January 27, 1997, Donald Hollis and his cousin Bert Brantley drove from Newville to an Auto Zone automobile parts store in Dothan, where Brantley purchased transmission fluid sealer to repair his car. Brantley testified that he and Hollis left Newville in Hollis’s car at approximately 7:00 p.m. After leaving Auto Zone, at about 8:00 p.m., Hollis and Brantley were driving down Wheat Street in Dothan when they heard someone whistle at them. Brantley testified that Hollis turned his car around and then stopped, and that Jerry Bryant and another man, Ricky Vickers, approached the car. Soon after, Vickers left, and Hollis, Brantley, and Bryant had a conversation. According to Brantley, Bryant asked him and Hollis if they had been drinking, and Hollis said that they had not, but that he would go buy some beer. Bryant told Hollis to get the beer and to come back and pick him up in 30 minutes. After buying the beer, Hollis returned and picked up Bryant, and the three men drove around while Brantley and Bryant drank beer.

“Brantley testified that they drove to his house in Newville, where the three of them went inside, drank beer, and talked. Brantley said that Jerry Bryant mentioned doing some drugs, but that Hollis and Brantley told Bryant that they did not do drugs. The three men then left Brantley’s house and drove back to Dothan. After driving around Dothan for a while, Hollis drove Bryant back to the house where they had picked him up. Brantley testified that when they reached the house, Bryant did not get out of the car and that Bryant said he had something he wanted to talk to Hollis about. Hollis asked Bryant what it was, but Bryant did not say anything. Brantley further testified that he said he would turn his head and look out the window while Bryant talked to Hollis. Brantley said that he then heard a gasp, and when he turned back around, Bryant, who was in the backseat, was holding a gun to Hollis’s head. According to Brantley, Bryant said, ‘This is what it’s all about.’ (R. 458.) Bryant told Brantley to get out of the car. Brantley initially refused, but when Bryant became angry and said to him, ‘Nigger, get out of the car,’ Brantley got out of the car and stood beside the passenger’s door for several minutes. (R. 459.) Hollis then rolled down his window and told Brantley that he would be back in a few minutes. Hollis and Bryant drove off.

“Brantley testified that he waited around 10 minutes for Hollis to return, but that he got scared and walked to a service station down the road. Brantley used the telephone at the service station to call his sister to come and pick him up. Brantley also tried to reach Hollis by calling him on Hollis’s cellular telephone. Brantley testified that Jerry Bryant answered the telephone and told Brantley that Hollis was with Bryant’s brother. Bryant wanted to know where Brantley was so that he could come and get him. Brantley called Hollis’s cellular telephone several more times; each time he got Bryant. Brantley told Bryant that he was going to telephone the police, and Bryant said that he did not want any trouble. Brantley’s sister then arrived to pick Brantley up, and they telephoned the police.

“Ricky Vickers testified that on the evening of January 27, 1997, he saw Bryant leave with Hollis in Hollis’s car. Vickers testified that later that same night Jerry Bryant returned to his house in Hollis’s car, but that Bryant was alone. Vickers later went riding with Bryant in the car, and Bryant told Vickers that Hollis was with a friend of Bryant’s. Bryant and Vickers went to ‘Mickey’s,’ a nightclub. When Bryant and Vickers left the club, the police were standing around Hollis’s car. Vickers walked off, and Bryant picked him up several blocks away from the club in Hollis’s car. Vickers testified that Bryant had said he wanted him to help him do something. Vickers stated that Bryant told him that Bryant had done something, and that he ‘had to kill the victim.’ (R. 524.) Vickers testified that Bryant had a gun and told him that if he did not help him, he was ‘going to do Vickers.’ (R. 526.) The two men then went back to Vickers’s house, where they each got a pair of gloves. Bryant then drove to where Hollis’s body was located. Vickers testified that after Bryant put some clothes and towels in the trunk of Hollis’s car, they put Hollis’s body in the trunk.

“Vickers testified that he and Jerry Bryant drove to Greenwood, Florida, to the home of Raymond Mathis. Mathis rode around with Bryant and Vickers in Hollis’s car, and Bryant and Mathis discussed selling Hollis’s cellular telephone. According to Vickers, Mathis said that he knew someone who would give them crack in exchange for the cellular telephone. After Bryant traded Hollis’s cellular telephone for crack, the men returned to Mathis’s house, and Bryant told Mathis that there was a body in the trunk. Bryant wanted to know where he could dump the body. Bryant, Vickers, and Mathis left Mathis’s house, drove down a dirt road, and dumped Hollis’s body. Bryant and Vickers then drove to Tallahassee, Florida, where they tried unsuccessfully to sell Hollis’s car. Bryant and Vickers returned to Dothan, and abandoned Hollis’s car, after cleaning the inside and wiping away any fingerprints. Vickers testified that they then looked for the ‘other guy’ (Brantley) because Bryant believed that Brantley could identify him. According to Vickers, Bryant planned to kill Brantley. Raymond Mathis testified to essentially the same facts as did Vickers.

“Lori Ann Andrews, Bryant’s girlfriend, testified that on January 29, 1997, Bryant and Vickers arrived at her apartment in a black car that she had never seen before. Bryant asked her if she would pick him up at his mother’s house in a few minutes. Bryant and Vickers left, and Andrews picked Bryant up as he had requested, and they went back to her apartment. Andrews further testified that the police came to her apartment to arrest Bryant that evening, and that when they knocked on the door, Bryant tried to give her a set of keys. The keys were later identified at trial as belonging to Hollis.

“Testimony at trial further revealed that a bloodstain on Bryant’s blue jeans was consistent with a mixture of Bryant’s blood and Hollis’s blood. Bloodstains found inside the trunk of Hollis’s car and on the bumper and taillight of the car were consistent with Hollis’s blood.

“In his statement to police, Jerry Bryant initially denied any involvement in Hollis’s murder. However, he eventually admitted to being with Hollis in Hollis’s car, but he claimed that Hollis left with a ‘guy named Terry Johnson’ and that he let Bryant use his car. Bryant said that he saw Johnson later that night and that Johnson had asked him to move Hollis’s body. Bryant stated that he agreed to do it for a substantial amount of cocaine, and he got Vickers to help him dump the body in Florida. Bryant denied shooting Hollis, but said that he was with Johnson when Johnson shot Hollis. When giving his statement, Bryant was asked why it took so many shots (three shots to the head) to kill the victim. According to testimony from the police officer taking the statement, Bryant said ‘Man, I don’t know, I think I need help. Sometimes I am just not Jerry.’ (R. 788.) According to the officer, Bryant then put his head down, covered his ears, and refused to talk anymore.”

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1554879.html

Wakilii Brown Alabama Death Row

Wakilii Brown was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murders of his girlfriend and her mother. According to court documents Wakilii Brown would beat to death the two women using what was believed to be a hammer. Wakilii Brown would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Wakilii Brown 2022 Information

Inmate:	BROWN, WAKILII
AIS:	0000Z752

Institution:	HOLMAN PRISON

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A Talladega County man who was convicted of capital murder has been sentenced to death.

Circuit Judge Bo Hollingsworth sentenced Wakilii Brown, 32, to die by lethal injection for the murders of his girlfriend, Cherae Jemison, 26, and her mother, Dotty Jemison, 49.

Brown has continued to maintain his innocence and told the court he wasn’t guilty before he was sentenced Monday.

Talladega County District Attorney Steve Giddens said he was pleased with the sentence although some of the victims’ family members asked the judge that Brown be given life without parole.

Brown’s attorneys said they plan to appeal.

Brown was convicted of beating the women to death at the home they all shared in Sylacauga in March 2001. The women were struck multiple times in the head with what appeared to be a hammer.

https://www.al.com/spotnews/2008/05/talladega_man_sentenced_to_dea.html