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Joshua Russell Alabama Death Row

Joshua Russell was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for the murder of a Police Officer. According to court documents Joshua Russell would run from officer Justin Sollohub and during the chase would turn and fire striking the Officer in the head. Joshua Russell would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Joshua Russell 2021 Information

Inmate:	RUSSELL, JOSHUA EUGENE
AIS:	0000z793

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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Joshua Russell, the man charged with killing Anniston officer Justin Sollohub, has been found guilty of capital murder.

The Lee County jury handed down the verdict around 5 p.m. Monday. Russell could face the death penalty.

Deliberations began around noon Monday and the jury had a great deal of physical and video evidence to consider.

Sollohub, 27, was shot in the head after chasing Russell on foot on August 24, 2011.

John Robbins, Russell’s attorney, told jurors in his closing statements that his client didn’t intend to kill Sollohub. He didn’t call any defense witnesses but will do so during the sentencing phase in an effort to save Russell’s life.

Russell’s sentencing phase begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17. The prosecution will push for the death penalty and Robbins says he will ask for life without parole. The jury will make their recommendation but the final say lies with Calhoun County Circuit Judge Brian Howell.

Sollohub’s mother, Jennifer Morris, and his stepfather have attended the two week trial. She says that all her son ever wanted to be was a policeman.

The case was moved to Opelika in Lee County due to pretrial publicity and in an effort to find a jury that had not heard much about the murder

https://www.wbrc.com/story/23446823/joshua-russell-found-guilty-in-killing-of-anniston-police-officer/

Jordan Creque Alabama Death Row

Jordan Creque was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for a double murder. According to court documents Jordan Creque would murder Jeffrey Mark Graff and Jessie Jose Aguilar, during a robbery at a restaurant in Decatur Alabama. Jordan Creque would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Jordan Creque Alabama Death Row

Inmate:	CREQUE, JORDAN STANLEY
AIS:	0000Z795

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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One of three people accused in the 2011 slayings of two employees at Krystal in Decatur was found guilty this morning on three counts of capital murder, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Jordaan Stanley Creque, 23, was found guilty by a Morgan County jury for the shooting deaths of night manager Jeffrey Mark Graff, 49, of Huntsville, and Jesse Jose Aguilar, 23, of Decatur. Their bodies were discovered in the restaurant’s walk-in cooler.

Creque and two other defendants – Ezekiel Marquez Gholston, 22, and Cassandra Rayann Eldred, 24 – were each charged with three counts of capital murder, with the third stemming from the fact that they were accused of killing the men during commission of a robbery. Creque and Eldred worked at Krystal at the time.

Eldred and Gholston will be tried separately.

Sentencing will be set for Creque, who faces the death penalty or life in prison. District Attorney Scott Anderson has said he will seek the death penalty.

The jury began deliberating Thursday after six days of testimony, according to a report in The Decatur Daily. They resumed deliberations at 8:30 a.m. today and rendered a verdict before lunch.

Creque testified Wednesday he did not intend to kill Graff and that Gholston was the one who shot Aguilar, the Daily reported.

Cedric Floyd Alabama Death Row

Cedric Floyd was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death row for the murder of a woman. According to court documents Cedric Floyd would break into the home of an ex girlfriend and shoot and kill the forty four year old woman Tina Jones. Cedric Floyd would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Cedric Floyd 2021 Information

Inmate:	FLOYD, CEDRIC JEROME
AIS:	0000z796

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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Atmore Police are investigating the murder of a 44-year old woman shot to death by her boyfriend.

Cedric Floyd, 28, of Atmore, is accused of shooting Tina Roshell Jones, 43, inside her 5th Avenue residence. Jones called 911 at 12:46 Sunday morning to report that Floyd was breaking into her home. Two minutes later, Atmore Police officers arrived and found Jones lying in the floor of the home with what appeared to be several gunshot wounds, according to Atmore Police. She was transported to Atmore Community Hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

“Witnesses at the scene said they were asleep, but were waken by Floyd demanding keys to a vehicle. After several moments, Floyd fled the scene on foot,” said Jason Dean, Atmore Police chief..

“While officers were at the residence, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from Cedric Jerome Floyd, 28 years of age, the boyfriend of Jones, stating he wanted to turn himself in. Deputies responded to Freemanville Drive where Floyd met officers. Floyd was then taken into custody,” said Dean.

Police said Floyd made forcible entry into the home through a Jones’ bedroom window in the rear of the home.

Floyd is being held without bond on a charge of capital murder in the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton.

James Osgood Alabama Death Row

James Osgood was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for the sexual assault and murder of Tracy Brown. According to court documents James Osgood and his girlfriend Tonya van Dyke would beat, sexually assault and murder Tracy Brown. James Osgood would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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James Osgood 2021 Information

Inmate:	OSGOOD, JAMES
AIS:	0000z797

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the death sentence for James Osgood.

Osgood was convicted and sentenced to death in 2014 for the Chilton County murder of Tracy Brown, 46. The victim was killed in October 2010 after authorities say Osgood and his girlfriend, Tonya van Dyke, beat and sexually abused her, then slit her throat.

Despite the conviction, a technicality prompted the appeals court to rule that a new jury must determine whether Osgood should be sentenced to death or life without parole.

In an unusual turn of events, before the new jury was struck, Osgood asked to be sentenced to death. It’s never happened before in the state of Alabama, according to a prosecutor.

Osgood told the judge he was an “eye for an eye kind of guy.”

“I firmly believe if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime,” Osgood said. “A couple of years ago I really screwed up. I’m guilty and I deserve death. That’s what I want.”

Osgood is being held on Alabama’s death row at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.

https://www.wsfa.com/2020/06/04/death-sentence-upheld-convicted-man-who-asked-it/

John DeBlase Alabama Death Row

John DeBlase was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for the murders of two children. According to court documents John DeBlase and Heather Leavell Keaton would murder the two children three months apart by horrific child abuse. Both John Deblase and Heather Leavell Keaton would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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John DeBlase 2021 Information

Inmate:	DEBLASE, JOHN JOSEPH
AIS:	0000z798

Institution:	HOLMAN DEATH ROW

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A Mobile woman convicted of killing her two step-children is heading back to death row.

The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals had ruled that Heather Leavell Keaton was entitled to a new sentencing hearing because the judge had not given her a chance to make a statement before initially imposing the death penalty.

Keaton got her day in court Thursday – but the result was the same. Retired Mobile County Circuit Judge Rick Stout, who presided over the original trial in 2015, again sentenced her death.

Keaton was the first woman in Mobile County ever sentenced to death.

According to testimony at her trial, she and common-law husband John DeBlase tortured and killed Chase DeBlase and Natalie DeBlase. Both were young children at the time.

The children’s father, John DeBlase, also is on death row

https://www.fox10tv.com/news/mobile_county/convicted-child-killer-given-new-sentencing-hearing-gets-same-result/article_6157134c-5140-11eb-bc1e-d3fe064cac81.html