Donald Broadnax Alabama Death Row

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Donald Broadnax was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murders of his wife and her grandson. According to court documents Donald Broadnax who was serving a ninety nine year prison sentence for murder was on work release when he would beat to death his wife and her four year old grandson. Donald Broadnax would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Inmate: BROADNAX, DONALD
AIS: 0000Z620
  
Institution: HOLMAN PRISON

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The evidence tended to show the following. In April 1996, Donald Broadnax, who had been convicted in 1978 for murder and who was serving a sentence of 99 years’ imprisonment, was residing at a work release center in Alexander City and working at Welborn Forest Products in Alexander City. In 1995 Broadnax married Hector Jan Stamps Broadnax, who at the time of the marriage had a three-year-old grandson, DeAngelo Stamps. Broadnax and Jan were having marital problems and Broadnax believed that Jan was partially responsible for a recent denial of parole. The evidence indicated that after 6:00 p.m. on April 25, 1996, Jan and DeAngelo delivered food to Broadnax at his workplace. Johnny Baker, an inmate at the work release center and Broadnax’s coworker at Welborn, testified that he saw Broadnax driving Jan’s car at Welborn that evening. 2 According to Baker, Donald Broadnax stopped to talk with him and he saw a child in a child’s safety seat in the backseat. Baker testified that he was ‘pretty sure’ the child was alive when he talked with Broadnax.3

“At approximately 10:45 p.m. that same night, Mark Chastain, a [supervisor] at Welborn, found Broadnax inside a building while securing the building for the night. Chastain testified that he told Broadnax that the alarm had been set and that they had to exit the building. According to Chastain, when he asked Broadnax why he was still in the building, Broadnax stated that the work release van had dropped him off․ 4

“Kathy Chastain, Mark Chastain’s wife, testified that while she was outside the building waiting for her husband to secure the building, she saw an individual matching Broadnax’s description get out of a [white King-cab pickup truck] and run into the building.

“On April 25, 1996, Robert Williams and his wife were living across the street from a house in Birmingham that had in the past been used as a ‘crack-house’ and for prostitution. On that evening as Williams and his wife left their house at approximately 8:20 p.m., they noticed no cars were parked at the house across the street. When they returned at approximately 8:50 p.m., they saw a white Dodge Aries automobile parked behind the house. Because of the previous illegal activities occurring at the house, Williams telephoned the police and reported the presence of the car.

“Alondo McCurdy and Donna Smith, officers for the Birmingham Police Department, responded to the call and arrived at the residence at approximately 9:00 p.m. When they approached the parked car, they noticed blood on the ground behind the car and on the bumper. Based on their observations, they immediately radioed their supervisor and the paramedics, and secured the scene. It was later determined that the car belonged to Jan Broadnax.

“When the paramedics arrived, they opened the locked trunk and found the bodies of Jan and DeAngelo in the trunk. Both Jan and DeAngelo had been beaten. According to Dr. Robert Brissie, the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsies on the victims, blunt-force trauma, which could have been caused by the use of a piece of lumber such as the one found in the trunk with the bodies, caused the deaths of Jan and DeAngelo.5

“On April 27, 1996, Lawrence Hardnette, an inmate resident at the work release center in Alexander City, found a work uniform that did not belong to him stuffed under his bunk. At about the same time, James Smith, another inmate resident of the work release center, found a pair of Red Wing brand work boots under his bunk. The uniform and the boots were turned over to the supervisors and were later identified as belonging to Broadnax. Broadnax was the only one at the work center who wore Red Wing work boots; there were also identifying marks on the work uniforms indicating that the uniforms had been issued to Broadnax. When the work uniform and the boots were examined, bloodstains were found on the uniform [and the boots]. The analysis of the bloodstains [on the uniform] indicated that the deoxyribonucleic acid (‘DNA’) in these bloodstains matched the DNA of Jan and DeAngelo.6

“On the grounds at Welborn near a finishing products storage facility, employees found an earring that matched an earring found on the rear floorboard of Jan’s car. The evidence appeared to indicate that Jan was killed at Broadnax’s workplace in Alexander City, that her body was placed in the trunk of the car, and that the car was driven to Birmingham. Officer Vince Cunningham of the Birmingham Police Department testified that while conducting the investigation, he traveled from the location where the bodies were found in Birmingham to Broadnax’s workplace in Alexander City [several times and determined that the drive time was no more than one and one-half hours]. [Thus, a]ccording to Cunningham, Broadnax could have easily traveled the distance between the two locations within the time frame set out by the evidence.”

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1618414.html

Nicholas Acklin Alabama Death Row

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Nicholas Acklin was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murders of four people. According to court documents Nicholas Acklin and Joey Wilson would shoot six people causing the deaths of four. Both Nicholas Acklin and Joey Wilson would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Inmate: ACKLIN, NICHOLAS BERNARD
AIS: 0000Z648
  
Institution: HOLMAN PRISON

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The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear arguments in the case of Nick Acklin, one of the men convicted in the 1996 cellphone torture-murders off University Drive.

Acklin, who is facing the death penalty, contends his lawyer had a conflict of interest.

Acklin and Joey Wilson both received death sentences for the 1996 murders of four people and the wounding of two more in a case still remembered for its brutality. A third man charged in the case, Corey Johnson, served 15 years in prison on a felony murder charge before being released in 2011.

Among those killed, AL.com reported, were Bryan Carter, 21; Michael Beaudette, 19; Johnny Couch, 18; and Lamar Hemphill, 21. Michelle Hayden, then 17, was shot in her face, elbow and abdomen. Ashley Rutherford, then 22, was shot in the back of the head and survived by pretending he was dead.

Johnson is facing an unrelated capital murder charge for the November 2016 stabbing death of his girlfriend, Candy Wilson, the sister of Joey Wilson.

Acklin’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court was co-authored by Donald Verrilli, a former Solicitor General of the United States.

It said the case presented the following question to the court:

“Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel when his lawyer is paid by a third party;
the third party threatens to withhold payment unless the lawyer conducts the defense in a manner that serves the third party’s interests; the lawyer does not inform his client or the court of the conflict; and the lawyer in fact conducts the defense in a manner that serves the third party payer’s interests and sacrifices the client’s interests.”

The argument focused on the fact that Acklin’s father had a long history of violent abuse of Acklin, his mother and his brothers. Shortly before trial, his attorney, Behrouz Rahmati learned about it and wanted to raise the issue during the sentencing phase.

But, according to the court filing, Acklin’s father, who had paid about $3,000 toward Acklin’s defense, strongly objected – telling Rahmati “You tell Nick if he wants to go down this road, I’m done with him” and “done with helping with this.”

Rahmati later told Nick Acklin he wanted to raise the issue, but Acklin told him no. The court filing says Rahmati got Acklin to sign a waiver confirming that he told Rahmati not to use the abuse evidence during Acklin’s trial and sentencing.

The abuse issue wasn’t raised during Acklin’s trial; instead, there was testimony Acklin came from a loving home.

The Supreme Court filing argued that Acklin’s lawyer didn’t do enough to raise the issue, and the father’s payments created a conflict of interest which denied Acklin effective counsel and a fair trial.

Acklin’s attorneys contend if the details of the abuse he and his family suffered were raised, the jury’s recommendation of a death sentence, by a 10-2 vote, might not have happened.

In opposing the petition the state of Alabama argued Acklin told his lawyer not to raise the issue,  so it was his clear choice not to present the abuse evidence.

Acklin and Wilson remain on death row

https://whnt.com/news/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-petition-of-nick-acklin-on-death-row-for-1996-cellphone-murders/

Matthew Reeves Alabama Death Row

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Matthew Reeves was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for a murder committed during a robbery. According to court documents Matthew Reeves and his brother Julius would rob the victim and would shoot and kill him during the robbery. Matthew Reeves would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Inmate: REEVES, MATTHEW
AIS: 0000Z636
  
Institution: HOLMAN PRISON

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On November 27, 1996, Matthew Reeves (who was 18 years old at the time) and his younger brother, Julius, visited Brenda Suttles and Suttles’s 15-year-old cousin, Emanuel, at Suttles’s house on Lavender Street in Selma.   There, according to Suttles, everyone agreed to go out “looking for some robberies.”  (R. 684.)   Shortly after noon that day, the foursome left Suttles’s house on foot and walked to a nearby McDonald’s restaurant, where they saw Jason Powell driving by in his car.   The appellant’s brother, Julius, flagged Powell down, and Powell agreed to give the group a ride.

Brenda Suttles and Emanuel Suttles testified that after the foursome got into Powell’s car, Julius Reeves suggested that they go to White Hall, a town in neighboring Lowndes County, to rob a drug dealer.   According to Brenda Suttles, everyone in the car agreed to the plan.  (Powell, who also testified at trial, denied hearing the discussion about a robbery.)   Before leaving Selma, the group stopped at an apartment on Broad Street.   Julius Reeves went inside the apartment and returned to the car a short time later carrying a shotgun, which he handed to the appellant.   With Powell driving, the group then headed for White Hall.

Before they reached White Hall, however, Powell’s car broke down on a dirt road off Highway 80.   Shortly thereafter, a passing motorist, Duane Smith, stopped and told the group that he was in a hurry to meet some friends to go hunting, but that he would return around sunset and would take them to get help then.   For the next couple of hours, the group sat in Powell’s car and listened to music, until another passing motorist, Willie Johnson, stopped in his pickup truck and offered to tow Powell’s car to Selma.   Using some chains that he kept in his pickup truck, Johnson hooked Powell’s car to the back of his truck.   With Julius Reeves riding in the truck with him and the others in Powell’s car, Johnson towed the car to the Selma residence where the appellant and Julius lived with their mother.

When they arrived at the Reeveses’ house, Julius Reeves got out of Johnson’s truck and told the others that Johnson wanted $25 for towing them.   However, no one had any money to pay Johnson.   Julius Reeves then offered to give Johnson a ring as payment if Johnson would drive him to his girlfriend’s house to get the ring.   Johnson agreed and he unhooked Powell’s car from his truck.   According to Jason Powell and Emanuel Suttles, Julius Reeves at this point told the others that Johnson was going to be their robbery victim.   While Jason Powell and Emanuel Suttles stayed behind with Powell’s car in front of the Reeveses’ house, Julius Reeves got back in the cab of the truck with Johnson, and Brenda Suttles climbed into the rear bed of the truck.   Testimony indicated that when Johnson started the truck, the appellant jumped into the rear bed of the truck with the shotgun, hiding the weapon behind his leg as he did so.

When they arrived at Julius’s girlfriend’s house in Johnson’s truck, Julius went inside and retrieved the ring he had promised to give Johnson as payment.   According to Brenda Suttles, when Julius came out of the house, he walked to the rear of Johnson’s truck and told her and the appellant that he was not going to let Johnson keep the ring.   After Julius got back in the cab of the truck, Johnson drove everyone back to the Reeveses’ house.

Jason Powell and Emanuel Suttles, who had remained at the house with Powell’s car, testified that sometime around 7:00 p.m., they saw Johnson’s truck drive by the house and turn into an alley-known as Crockett’s Alley-behind the house.   According to Brenda Suttles, who was in the rear bed of the truck with the appellant, just as the truck came to a stop in the alley, she heard a loud “pow” sound.  (R. 704.)   Suttles testified that when she looked up, the appellant was withdrawing the barrel of the shotgun from the open rear window of the truck’s cab.   Johnson had been shot in the neck and was slumped over in the driver’s seat.   Suttles testified that Julius Reeves jumped out of the truck’s cab and asked the appellant what he had done, and that the appellant then told Julius and Suttles to go through Johnson’s pockets to “get his money.”  (R. 704.)   Suttles stated that Julius then pulled Johnson out of the truck and went through his pockets, giving the money he found in the pockets to the appellant.   After Julius had gone through Johnson’s pockets, Suttles helped him put Johnson back in the truck’s cab.   According to Suttles, Johnson was bleeding heavily and making “gagging” noises.  (R. 721.)

Jason Powell and Emanuel Suttles testified that they heard the gunshot after Johnson’s truck pulled into Crockett’s Alley and that a short time later they saw the appellant, Julius Reeves, and Brenda Suttles run out of the alley and into the Reeveses’ house.   The appellant was carrying a shotgun, they said.   They followed the appellant, Julius Reeves, and Brenda Suttles into the Reeveses’ house and saw the appellant place the shotgun under a bed in his bedroom.   The appellant told Julius and Brenda Suttles to change out of their bloodstained clothes and shoes, and he took the clothes and shoes and stuffed them under a dresser in his bedroom.   According to Emanuel Suttles, as the appellant, Julius, and Brenda changed their clothes, they were “jumping and hollering” and celebrating about “all the stuff [they] got” from Johnson.  (R. 842.)   Jason Powell testified that he heard the appellant say, “I made the money.”  (R. 786.)

After changing their clothes, Matthew Reeves Julius Reeves, and Brenda Suttles ran to Suttles’s house.   On the way, the appellant stopped to talk to his girlfriend, telling her that if she should be questioned by the police, to tell them that he had been with her all day.   At Suttles’s house, the appellant divided the money taken from Johnson-approximately $360-among himself, Julius Reeves, and Brenda Suttles.   Testimony indicated that throughout the evening, the appellant continued to brag about having shot Johnson.   Several witnesses who were present at Suttles’s house that evening testified that they saw the appellant dancing, “throwing up” gang signs, and pretending to pump a shotgun.   Brenda Suttles testified that as the appellant danced, he would jerk his body around in a manner “mock[ing] the way that Willie Johnson had died.”  (R. 713.)   The appellant was also heard to say that the shooting would earn him a “teardrop,” a gang tatoo acquired for killing someone.  (R. 720.)

Yolanda Blevins, who was present during the post-shooting “celebration” at Suttles’s house, testified that Matthew Reeves called her into the kitchen and told her that he had shot a man in a truck after catching a ride with him.   Blevins noticed that there was what appeared to be dried blood on the appellant’s hands.   LaTosha Rodgers, who was also present at Suttles’s house, testified that the appellant told her that he had “just shot somebody” in the alley.  (R. 924.)

At around 2:00 a.m. on November 28, 1996 (approximately seven hours after the shooting), Selma police received a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in Crockett’s Alley.   When police officers investigated, they found Johnson’s body slumped across the seat of his pickup truck.   There was a pool of blood on the ground on the driver’s side of the truck.   Several coins and a diamond ring were on the ground near the truck.   On the floorboard of the truck, police found wadding from a shotgun shell.   The pockets of Johnson’s pants had been turned inside out and were empty.   Testimony at trial indicated that Johnson was a longtime employee of the Selma Housing Authority and that on the afternoon of November 27, 1996, he had cashed his paycheck, which had been in the amount of $500.

At the shooting scene on the morning of November 28, police also discovered a trail of blood leading from Johnson’s truck to the Reeveses’ house.   Randy Tucker, a canine-patrol officer with the Selma Police Department, testified that his dog tracked the blood trail from the pool of blood next to Johnson’s truck, down Crockett’s Alley, through the yard at 2126 Selma Avenue (the residence next to the alley), and ultimately to the front steps of the Reeveses’ house at 2128 Selma Avenue.

Pat Grindle, the detective in charge of investigating Johnson’s murder, went to the Reeveses’ house after learning that the blood trail led there.   Det. Grindle testified that he obtained the consent of the appellant’s mother, Marzetta Reeves, to search the house.   In a bedroom shared by the appellant and Julius, Det. Grindle found bloodstained clothes and bloodstained shoes;  under a bed in this bedroom, Det. Grindle found a shotgun.   In searching the kitchen, Det. Grindle found a pair of bloodstained pants.   After making these discoveries, Det. Grindle questioned Marzetta Reeves and several other persons who were in the house at that time.   Det. Grindle stated that he learned that the bloodstained clothes and shoes belonged to Julius Reeves, Brenda Suttles, and Matthew Reeves.   Det. Grindle then went to Suttles’s house in an attempt to locate the three.   At Suttles’s house, Det. Grindle found the appellant lying on a couch in a front room.   The appellant was placed under arrest, and the officers seized a balled-up bloodstained jacket he was using as a headrest on the couch.   Det. Grindle later returned to the Reeveses’ residence, where he seized a 12 gauge shotgun shell from a garbage can in the bathroom.

An autopsy revealed that Johnson had died from a shotgun wound to his neck that severed the carotid artery, causing him to bleed to death over a period of several minutes.   Bloodstain patterns in Johnson’s truck indicated that he was sitting upright in the driver’s seat, facing forward, when he was shot from behind, through the open rear window.   The bloodstain patterns also indicated that the driver’s side door had been opened and closed shortly after Johnson was shot.

Testimony indicated that the Matthew Reeves’s fingerprints were found on the shotgun that Det. Grindle had seized from under the bed in the appellant’s bedroom.   Brenda Suttles’s and Julius Reeves’s fingerprints were found on a fender of Johnson’s truck.   Joseph Saloom, a firearms expert with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, testified that the shotgun shell seized from the bathroom at the Reeveses’ residence was of the type commonly fired from the shotgun seized from the appellant’s bedroom.   Saloom stated that the shotgun-shell wadding found on the floorboard of Johnson’s truck was of the type commonly found in the kind of shotgun shell seized from the bathroom at the Reeveses’ residence.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1095438.html

Matthew Reeves Execution

The Alabama killer who was executed Thursday by lethal injection for a 1996 murder remained silent during the procedure at Holman Prison.

Matthew Reeves, 43, was convicted of capital murder for murdering a driver who gave him a ride in 1996. Willie Johnson, the victim, died from a shotgun blast to the neck during the robbery. He picked up Reeves, 18 at the time, who was on the side of the road. Evidence showed he went to a party afterward and celebrated the killing with blood still on his hands.

He was pronounced dead at 9:35 p.m. local time. The Associated Press reported that he craned his neck to look a few times around the death chamber and grimaced and looked toward his left arm toward the intravenous line. “With his eyes closed and mouth slightly agape, Reeves’ abdomen moved repeatedly before he grew still,” AP reported.

A last-minute fight by his lawyers seeking to stop the execution involved his intellect, his rights under federal disability law and how the state planned to kill him. Reeves claimed he had intellectual disabilities that prevented him from understanding the form offering him the chance to choose nitrogen hypoxia — a method never used in the U.S. — over lethal injection, which the inmate’s lawyers called “torturous.

Reeves also claimed the state failed to help him understand the form. But the state argued he wasn’t so disabled that he couldn’t understand the choice. A poor reader and intellectually disabled, Reeves isn’t capable of making such a decision without assistance that should have been provided under the American With Disabilities Act, his lawyers argued. A prison worker who gave Reeves a form didn’t offer aid to help him understand, they said.

With Reeves contending he would have chosen nitrogen hypoxia over a “torturous” lethal injection had he comprehended the form, the defense filed suit asking a court to halt the lethal injection. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. blocked execution plans, ruling that Reeves had a good chance of winning the claim under the disabilities law.

A defense expert concluded Reeves had a first-grade reading level and the language competency of someone as young as 4, but the state disagreed that Reeves had a disability that would prevent him from understanding his options.

An Alabama inmate who was put to death by lethal injection last year, Willie B. Smith, unsuccessfully raised claims about being intellectually unable to make the choice for nitrogen hypoxia.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-killer-executed-for-brutal-murder-of-driver-in-1996

Ulysses Charles Sneed Alabama Death Row

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Ulysses Charles Sneed was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for a murder committed during a robbery. According to court documents Ulysses Charles Sneed and John Hardy would rob a conveinence store and during the robbery would shoot and kill the clerk. Ulysses Charles Sneed and John Hardy were arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. John Hardy would die behind bars in 2016

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Inmate: SNEED, ULYSSES CHARLES
AIS: 0000Z590
  
Institution: HOLMAN PRISON

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Officials are investigating the Monday morning death of an inmate who was convicted of a convenience store murder and armed robbery in Decatur more than 20 years ago.

Medical personnel pronounced John Milton Hardy, 43, dead about 3:30 a.m. at William C. Holman Correctional Facility, according to a statement from the Alabama Department of Corrections.

The department’s spokesman, Bob Horton, said a corrections officer found Hardy unresponsive in his cell during a routine security check.

“His execution had not been set yet,” Horton said about Hardy’s sentence. “He was admitted in 1985.”

Hardy and Ulysses Charles Sneed, 45, were both sentenced to death for the Sept. 7, 1993, crime that left Clarence Nugene Terry, 51, of Lawrence County, dead in Bud’s No. 15 convenience store at 2012 Westmeade St. S.W. in Decatur, officials said.

Court records indicate Hardy, 22 at the time, of Tanner, was identified as the man who shot Terry with a .22-caliber rifle — five times in the head and once in the chest — based on video surveillance footage of the incident. Records identify Sneed, then 23, of Louisville, Kentucky, as the man on camera stealing the cash register.

Police apprehended the men in Louisville, where Hardy was visiting family, during the week following the incident, officials said.

Court testimony during the trial indicated the two met through Hardy’s cousin, Chris Hines, of Louisville, who was Sneed’s best friend.

Jurors found Hardy and Sneed guilty of capital murder in October 1995, and in December that year, Morgan County Circuit Judge Sherrie Brown sentenced them to death.

Newspapers at the time reported the average wait time for the death penalty was 12 years on death row.

The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences investigations and intelligence division will perform an autopsy on Hardy because his death is under investigation, authorities said.

Horton said officials do not know when results will be released.

https://www.corrections1.com/ethics/articles/ala-officials-investigating-after-death-row-inmate-found-dead-in-cell-oGQKN7D8UiVkwPw7/

Donald Dallas Alabama Death Row

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Donald Dallas was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for a murder that occurred during a kidnapping. According to court documents Donald Dallas would force a woman into the trunk of a car after forcing her to make withdrawals at various ATMS. Donald Dallas would abandon the car with the woman still in the trunk and she would ultimately die from a heart attack. Donald Dallas would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Inmate: DALLAS, DONALD F
AIS: 0000Z588
  
Institution: HOLMAN PRISON

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The record indicates that on July 12, 1994, Mrs. Hazel Liveoak left her home in Millbrook to go grocery shopping in Prattville.   As she was placing her groceries into her car, Donald Dallas and co-defendant, Carolyn Yaw, pushed Mrs. Liveoak into the car and forced her to lie face down on the floorboard.   He and Yaw got into the car.   The appellant told Mrs. Liveoak that he wanted her money.   When she informed him that she only had $10.00 with her, he replied that that was not enough and began to drive toward Greenville.   Mrs. Liveoak told the appellant that she had a credit card that could be used at an automatic teller machine.   In Greenville, the appellant drove to the end of a dirt road, opened the trunk and forced Mrs. Liveoak into it.   With Mrs. Liveoak in the trunk, the appellant and Yaw travelled to Montgomery.   The appellant drove the car to the bank and parked in an area of the parking lot far removed from the bank building.   Yaw was successful in using Mrs. Liveoak’s credit card in 3 of 11 transactions to obtain $300.00.   The appellant remained at the car, talking to Mrs. Liveoak while Yaw withdrew the money.   Mrs. Liveoak prayed for the appellant and his family while she was in the trunk.   The appellant told Mrs. Liveoak that he and Yaw would abandon the car and telephone for help to ensure that she was released from the trunk.   Mrs. Liveoak told the appellant that she had a heart condition.   Mrs. Liveoak was never released from the trunk and she suffered a heart attack and died.

Evidence was presented tending to prove that Mrs. Liveoak did not die immediately but rather lived for a number of hours.   Evidence was also presented that Mrs. Liveoak had a number of bruises and cuts on her hands consistent with trying to free herself or calling for help.   The State presented evidence that the appellant and Yaw, after leaving Mrs. Liveoak, went to a “crack house” to purchase cocaine with the stolen money.   They then went to a motel and spent the night smoking crack cocaine.   The testimony of Dennis Bowen, an acquaintance of the appellant, indicated that the appellant and Yaw were bragging at the crack house that they had placed an elderly lady in the trunk of a car and had left her there.   When Bowen questioned the appellant about his statement, he responded that he “hoped the old lady would die.”   Evidence was also presented showing that, three days before this offense, the appellant had abducted and robbed Wesley Portwood, an 80-year-old man, in the parking lot of a Kmart in Prattville.   As with Mrs. Liveoak, the appellant made Portwood lie face down on the floorboard of his car, then drove to a remote area and ordered him out of the car.   The appellant told Portwood to lie down in the weeds or he would place him in the trunk of the car.   Portwood told the appellant that he did not want to get into the trunk because he would “smother inside.”   The appellant then robbed Portwood of $160.   Portwood survived the abduction.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1003667.html