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Kevin Towles Alabama Death Row

Kevin Towles was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for the murder of a five year old child. According to court documents Kevin Towles would fatally beat the five year old child Geontae Glass. Kevin Towles would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Kevin Towles 2021 Information

Inmate:	TOWLES, KEVIN ANDRE
AIS:	0000z764

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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A man twice convicted and sentenced to death in a child’s 2006 fatal beating has won a second appeal due to judicial error.

Kevin Andre Towles, was convicted of capital murder for fatally beating his girlfriend’s five-year-old child, Geontae Glass, and sentenced to death in 2009.

According to court records, the child had died after being paddled for receiving a “straight face” instead of a “smiling face” on his kindergarten conduct report. In an attempt to cover up the murder, Towles and the boy’s mother, Shalinda Glass, hatched a plan to stage a kidnapping, which resulted in an AMBER alert. After authorities eventually discovered the boy’s body in the truck of his mother’s car, Towles admitted to causing the boy’s death in an interview with officers.

The doctor that testified in the case said that Geontae, who died from blunt-force injuries, could have survived his injuries if he had received medical attention. Shalinda Glass was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2012. She will be considered for parole in 2021.

The Alabama Supreme Court first threw out Towles’ conviction in 2014 due to improper testimony. The court said the testimony of Towles’ 15-year-old about his own beating had prejudiced the case, in that it did not show Towles had intended to murder his son during the fatal beating.

After being convicted and sentenced to death in his 2015 retrial, Towles’ case will return to the court for a third time, due to judicial error.

https://abc3340.com/news/local/mans-death-sentence-reversed-in-childs-fatal-beating-case

James Largin Alabama Death Row

James Largin was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for the murders of his parents. According to court documents James Largin would shoot Jimmy, 68, and Peggy, 56 multiple times causing their deaths. James Largin would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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James Largin 2021 Information

Inmate:	LARGIN, JAMES SCOTT
AIS:	0000Z765

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it won’t hear the appeal of an Alabama death row inmate who was convicted in the 2007 killings of his parents in Tuscaloosa.

James Scott Largin, 46, earlier this year had appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court a December 2015 ruling by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upholding his conviction and death sentence.

On Monday the high court, without opinion, refused to review his case.

Largin was sentenced to death by a Tuscaloosa County judge in 2009 for his capital murder conviction in the deaths of his parents, Jimmy, 68, and Peggy, 56.

“Peggy and Jimmy Largin were at home on the night of March 15, 2007, when they were shot multiple times with a .22 caliber rifle and their bodies were thrown down the stairs leading to the cellar in their home. Autopsy results showed that both victims died as the result of close-range gunshot wounds to the head,” according to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals ruling.

“This Court has independently weighed the aggravating and the mitigating circumstances as required by (Alabama law) … We are convinced, as was the circuit court, that death was the appropriate sentence for Largin’s capital crimes,” the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals stated in its order.

He was arrested after University of Alabama police found his parents’ car near the campus a few days after the murders, the Associated Press reported at the time.

A prosecutor at Largin’s original trial said Largin showed no remorse over the murders. The judge agreed with the jury’s recommendation that Largin be given the death penalty. His defense attorneys argued for life in prison without parole

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2017/11/us_supreme_court_rejects_appea_2.html

Steven Petric Alabama Death Row

Steven Petric was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for a sexual assault and murder. According to court documents Steven Petric would sexually assault and murder Toni Lim. The murder would go unsolved for nearly two decades. Steven Petric would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Steven Petric 2021 Information

Inmate:	PETRIC, STEVEN
AIS:	0000Z763

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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A man who was convicted of the 1990 murder of a Homewood woman has been sentenced to death.

Steven Petric received the sentence today, 3 years after DNA evidence linked him to Toni Lim’s murder.

The 23-year-old woman was found dead in her Homewood apartment and thecrime when unsolved for 16 years until a national database matched DNAfrom the crime scene to Petric’s.

Petric, who is 48, has continued to maintain his innocence and said he only had consensual sex with Lim.

Shewas found hogtied in her bedroom with her throat slit and a deep knifewound to the back of her neck. She had been sexually assaulted and herwedding ring had been stolen.

Petric has been incarcerated since 1994, and was in an Illinois prison when the DNA match was found.

Justin White Alabama Death Row

Justin White was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for the sexual assault and murder of a teenager. According to court documents Justin White would sexually assault and strangle Jasmine Parker, 17. Justin White who would sexually assault and murder a college student Sirrea Black months later would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the Jasmine Parker case and would receive life without parole for the Sirrea Black murder.

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Justin White 2021 Information

Inmate:	WHITE, JUSTIN
AIS:	0000Z766

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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Justin White, already serving life without parole for the rape and murder of a college student in 2006, was sentenced to death today for the rape and strangulation of a teenager that occurred four months before the other crime.

White, 22, was convicted of capital murder in December for the July 11, 2006, death of Jasmine Parker, 17, whose mother found her nearly nude body with a pair of jeans wrapped around her neck inside their north Birmingham apartment.

The other victim, 20-year-old Sirrea Black, was killed in a similar way on Oct. 31, 2006. The Bessemer judge in that case upheld that jury’s recommendation of life without parole instead of death in the murder of Black, a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The jury in the Birmingham trial also recommended life without parole in a 9-3 vote after hearing testimony about White’s longtime struggles with and treatment for mental and impulse-control problems.

But after hearing arguments from lawyers on Monday, Circuit Judge Clyde Jones ruled today that White should die by lethal injection for the crime. Black’s murder was cited as an aggravating factor by the prosecution, along with burglary and rape in Parker’s death.

Jones said he gave great consideration to the jury’s sentencing recommendation, but decided to overrule the advisory verdict because of Parker’s age and the way she was killed.

A Jefferson County coroner testified in December that strangulation with soft ligatures such as clothing results in a slow death. Parker also had a non-lethal cut to her throat.

https://www.al.com/spotnews/2010/02/justin_white_sentenced_to_deat.html

Timothy Boyle Alabama Death Row

Timothy Boyle was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for the murder of two year old Savannah White. According to court documents Timothy Boyle would beat to death the two year old little girl. Timothy Boyle would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Timothy Boyle 2021 Information

Inmate:	BOYLE, TIMOTHY SCOTT
AIS:	0000Z768

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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The capital murder conviction of Timothy Scott Boyle in the 2005 death of 2-year-old Savannah White has been upheld by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
Boyle was convicted in November 2009 and sentenced to death by lethal injection in March 2010 by Etowah County Circuit Judge David Kimberley for murdering Savannah. The jury in the trial, over which Kimberley presided, unanimously recommended the death penalty.
Kimberley also sentenced Boyle to 10 years in prison for unlawful possession of a controlled substance, evidence of which was found during the murder investigation.
Boyle’s attorneys had sought the appeal on multiple grounds, alleging Boyle was denied his right to a speedy trial; that the drug charge should have been separated from the capital murder charge, raising questions about jury selection; and that testimony and evidence that should have been impermissible were allowed in by Kimberley.
The Court of Appeals said, “After independently weighing the aggravating circumstance and the mitigating circumstances, this Court is convinced, as was the circuit court, that death is the appropriate punishment for the murder of 2-year-old Savannah.”
Savannah, the daughter of Boyle’s girlfriend, died from a series of blunt-force injuries to her head, according to testimony during the trial.
Savannah’s older sister testified she saw Boyle slap the child around and throw her against a bathtub in the family’s Rainbow City home not long before her death on Oct. 27, 2005.
Other witnesses testified Savannah was afraid of Boyle in the weeks leading up to her death.
Bruising around Savannah’s head was discovered during an autopsy and was consistent with what would occur after repeated open-handed blows to the head during a period of days or weeks.
“Because of the distribution, those were multiple strikes — I don’t know exactly how many — over half of her skull or more,” said forensic pathologist and key witness James Lauridson, who examined Savannah’s body after her death. “I cannot imagine how this could have been an accident.“
Brain swelling resulting from the blows was the official cause of death, Lauridson testified.
“The defendant’s actions in the brutal murder of this helpless child clearly fit within the parameters of the aggravating circumstances found by the jury to exist in this case,” Kimberley said in his judgment.

https://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/DA/20130408/News/603237321/GT