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Lynda Block Execution
Lynda Block was executed by the State of Alabama for the murder of a police officer. Lynda Block would be executed by way of the electric chair on May 10, 2002
Lynda Block aka Lynda Lyon Block was born on February 8, 1948 in Orlando Florida.
Lynda who worked for a number of charity organizations and was the editor of a political magazine would enter into a common law relationship with George Sibley.
Lynda Block and George Sibley had failed to show up at court regarding an assault on Lynda’s ex husband and were on the run from authorities. Someone would phone the police and report a boy who appeared to need help and of a family living in their car.
When the police officer showed up he would park behind the car which contained George Sibley, Lynda Block and her nine year old son were in a nearby store, the officer would ask Sibley for his drivers license and soon after a gun fight began.
Lynda who would see what was taking place would draw her own gun and fire at the officer. When the officer turned towards her he was fatally shot in the chest.
Both George Sibley and Lynda Block would be charged with the murder of the officer and both would be convicted and sentenced to death.
George Sibley was executed on August 4, 2002. Lynda would be executed on May 10, 2005
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Lynda Block, 54, and her common-law husband, George Sibley Jr., were on the run after failing to appear on a domestic battery charge. With Block’s 9 year old son in the car, they stopped so Block could use the telephone in a Walmart parking lot. Opelika Police Sergeant Roger Lamar Motley had just finished lunch and was shopping for supplies for the jail when a woman came up to him and told him there was a car in the parking lot with a little boy inside. The woman was worried about him. She was afraid that the family was living in their car. Would he check on them?
Motley cruised up and down the rows of parked cars and finally pulled up behind the Mustang. Sibley was in the car with the boy, waiting for Block to finish a call to a friend from a pay phone in front of the store. Motley asked Sibley for his drivers license. Sibley said he didn’t need one. He was trying to explain why when Motley put his hand on his service revolver. Sibley reached into the car and pulled out a gun. Motley uttered a four-letter expletive and spun away to take cover behind his cruiser. Sibley crouched by the bumper of the Mustang. People in the parking lot screamed, hid beneath their cars and ran back into the store as the men began firing at each other. Preoccupied by the threat in front of him, Motley did not see Lynda Block until the very last moment.
She had dropped the phone, pulling the 9mm Glock pistol from her bag as she ran toward the scene, firing. Motley turned. She remembered later how surprised he looked. She kept on firing. She could tell that a bullet struck him in the chest. Staggering, he reached into the cruiser. She kept on firing, thinking he was trying to get a shotgun. But he was grabbing for the radio. “Double zero,” he managed to say — the code for help. He died in a nearby hospital that afternoon. In letters to friends and supporters, Lynda Block later would describe Motley as a “bad cop” and a wife beater with multiple complaints against him.
As part of the conspiracy against her, Lynda Block said, she was prohibited from bringing up his record in court. His personnel file makes no mention of any misbehavior. His wife says he was a kind and patient man. Both Lynda Block and Sibley received deeath sentences.
True to their “patriot” ideologies, Lynda Block waived her appeals. She has refused to accept the validity of Alabama’s judicial system, claiming that Alabama never became a state again after the Civil War. Lynda Block has been completely non-cooperative with her court-appointed attorney, who nevertheless attempted to work against her death sentence. First execution of a female in Alabama since 1957. She is the 9th female executed in the U.S. since reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976.
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The notoriously anti-government George Sibley was defiant up to the very end. Less than a minute before the chemicals entered his body he offered these last words. “Everyone who is doing this to me is guilty of a murder. To my sister and my niece, I want to express my gratitude and my love and my gratitude to my personal my saviour the Lord Jesus Christ.”
For a full three to five minutes after the procedure began Sibley held his gaze. He kept his eyes on his family sitting with those of us in the media. He glanced only one time at Officer Motley’s family.
He then gasped heavily three or four times before he passed out. Doctors pronounced Sibley dead after 15 minutes.
Afterwards, the officer’s family asked reporters not to focus on Sibley’s death.
It was an intense seen inside the condemned man’s witness room. The media sat with Sibley’s family. Sibley’s sister and niece prayed constantly. Both were forced to leave not by officers but by their own emotions before doctors pronounced Sibley dead. The family isn’t saying where they will bury the convicted cop killer but he is from Florida.
Officer Motley’s widow, Juanita Kirkwood, told us Wednesday she personally did not want the execution. Thursday, she said it was extremely difficult to watch but she felt justice was done
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Anti-government extremist George Sibley Jr. nodded to his relatives, stared at his victim’s family and gave a final statement of defiance before he was executed Thursday for the 1993 shooting death of an Opelika police officer.
“Everyone who is doing this to me is guilty of a murder,” Sibley said.
“My sister and my niece, I want to express my love and gratitude . . . and gratitude to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” Sibley said after being strapped to a gurney for the lethal injection to begin.
Officials at Holman Prison near Atmore said Sibley died at 6:26 p.m. The execution was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Sibley’s request for a delay and Gov. Bob Riley turned down Sibley’s request for a six-month postponement.
“There is no new evidence that would justify such a delay,” the governor said.
George Sibley and Lynda Block refused for years to file appeals. Before Lynda Block was put to death, she claimed through an attorney that Alabama never became a state again after the Civil War and she therefore did not recognize the state’s court system.
Motley’s widow, Juanita Motley Kirkwood, witnessed the execution, along with his mother, sister, son and two stepsons
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Mason Sisk Alabama Teen Charged With 5 Murders
Mason Sisk is a fourteen year old from Alabama that has been charged with murdering his parents and three siblings. According to police reports Mason Sisk had learned that his mother was not his biological mother and basically snapped. It is alleged that Mason Sisk grabbed a gun and proceeded to shoot his parents and three siblings. During the time that he has spent in custody this alleged teen killer has not shown any remorse over the brutal slayings of his entire family. Due to his age at the time of the murders Mason Sisk can not be sentenced to death but faces the possibility of spending his life behind bars. Mason Sisk trial has not yet been scheduled
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A 14-year-old boy allegedly gunned his entire family down after finding out his mother was not his biological mother, a relative claimed. Police said Mason Sisk, 14, confessed to killing his father John Sisk, 38, his stepmother Mary Sisk, 35, his half-brothers, Six-year-old Kane and six-month-old Coleson, and his half-sister Aurora, 5, at their home in Elkmont, Alabama on August 2. Authorities have not yet released a motive, but Mason’s cousin, Daisy McCarty, told WAFF-TV that Mason learned Mary Sisk was not his biological mother shortly before the shooting. McCarty also said that Mason had been exhibiting problematic behavior in the months leading up to the shooting, such as burning animals alive and breaking into his school.
Steven Young, spokesman for the Limestone Sheriff’s Office, said Mason is currently charged with five counts of juvenile murder, but could later face adult charges.
Police say the teen called 911 on himself after the shooting and told responding officers that he was in the basement of the home when he heard gunshots upstairs. Young said: ‘The offender called 911…he met deputies in the driveway and told them he had been in the basement of the home and heard gunshots from the main level of the home upstairs.
He continued: ‘He said he ran out the door and there was very little other information given.’ According to Young, ‘discrepancies were found in his statement’ and when officers confronted the teen, he ‘admitted to shooting the five family members.’ The teen then reportedly helped officers find a handgun that he tossed on the side of the road near the home. Authorities later said that the handgun was in the home illegally.
A man who identified himself as the Sisk’s neighbor wrote in a Facebook post: ‘This is surreal. The teenage boy used to play at our house often as a kid. He came in and played and ate snacks. We carried him to church occasionally.’ ‘It’s hard to imagine what has happened in 14 years to come to a point that wiping out your entire family seems like the best option. Now he has no one.
He’s brought this upon himself. He’s rocked a community. There’s no denying his heinous act,’ the post continues before urging forgiveness for the boy. According to AL.com, Mason’s biological mother died in Indiana in 2011. John Sisk reportedly sought full custody of his son in 2010, claiming Mason had not seen his biological mother since 2008, when he was three years old. At a court hearing, John Sisk told a judge that Mason’s mother was often drunk and on pills. He was granted emergency custody of Mason on the day his mother was found dead, according to WHNT. It is unclear when the boy is due in court.
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A 15-year-old north Alabama boy will be tried as an adult in the murders of his father, stepmother and three siblings at their Elkmont home last year.
The Limestone County Sheriff’s Office Friday announced that Mason Sisk, who was 14 when the killings happened, will be tried as an adult. Sisk has been held in a juvenile detention facility in Tuscumbia since his arrest. He was booked into the Limestone County Jail Thursday on one capital murder charge of killing two or more people and three capital murder charges of killing a person under the age of 14.
A hearing was held in Juvenile Court which paved the way for Sisk to be tried as an adult. Limestone County District Brian Jones said the charges will now be presented to a grand jury for indictment consideration. The testimony presented in that hearing is not public because Sisk was still a juvenile defendant at the time.
Sisk is accused in the horrific September 2019 incident where authorities say he put a gun to the heads of his father, mother, and three younger siblings and pulled the trigger. Mary Sisk, 35, John Sisk, 38, and their three children – Kane, 6, Rorrie, 5 and 6-month-old Colson – all died from gunshots wounds to the head while they slept.
Investigators said the 14-year-old called 911 to report the shooting at his family’s home. During questioning, he admitted to killing all of them, authorities said. The gun used in the homicides was in the Sisk home illegally and was recovered the morning after the killings when the suspect helped lead offices to the place where he dumped the weapon.
John Sisk was an automotive and recreational vehicle repairman. Friend Ron Henson, of Biker Church Huntsville, told AL.com in an earlier interview that the two rode motorcycles together and that he was a spiritual assistant to John Sisk, who Henson said re-devoted his life to his family and spirituality.
Mary Sisk was fifth-generation teacher and had been working in the field for 10 years. She had been teaching at a Huntsville City School for about a month. Mary Sisk had left New Orleans after the family lost their home to Hurricane Katrina and moved to Indiana. It was there she met John Sisk through a friend and when she moved to Alabama, he followed her. They married in 2010.
Mary Sisk officially adopted her stepson on Dec. 21, 2018 but she had always been his mom in every sense of the word and the only mother he ever knew, said Mary Sisk’s mother, Denise Prater, in an extensive interview shortly after the slayings.
“Mary was never his stepmother. (He) was always her son, always my grandson,” Prater said.. We never said ‘step.’ Mary was the best thing that ever happened to (him). He loved being in our family. He was always ours.”
“He was going through the pain and angst of being a 14-year-old boy. What we saw was a 14-year-old trying to grow into adulthood with three young siblings,” Prater said.
“But this never would have entered our minds. He was a good kid,” she said. “His friends are also shocked.”
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A Limestone County teen facing capital murder charges pleaded now has a trial date in 2022.
Mason Sisk is accused of killing his parents and three siblings. His trial is now set to begin on September 12.
“In Mason’s case, it’s really difficult given the facts and the charges to settle something like that. It makes it incredibly difficult to enter any kind of negotiated plea where all parties are satisfied with the outcome,” said Sisk’s attorney Michael Sizemore.
Heather Leavell Keaton Women On Death Row
Heather Leavell Keaton is on Alabama Death Row for the murders of two young children. According to court documents Leavell Keaton and her common law husband John DeBlase murdered the first child in March 2010, the ten year old child strangled to death after she was duct taped and placed in a closet. The second child was murdered in June 2010 when he was duct taped to a broom handle and placed in the closet. Both of the children would be later buried in the backyard. According to witnesses the two children were murdered after asking about their biological mother which enraged Heather. Both Heather and her common law husband John DeBlase would be convicted on both murders and sentenced to death.
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Heather Leavell Keaton, the stepmother suspected in the deaths of Natalie and Chase DeBlase who authorities say were buried in the woods, was returning to Alabama Friday from a Kentucky jail to face charges along with her common-law husband.
According to Louisville Metro Corrections spokeswoman Pam Windsor, Leavell-Keaton was being held at a Louisville jail on abuse charges before she was picked up around 1:00 a.m. Friday to be transferred back to Mobile, Ala.
The children’s father, John DeBlase, 27, told authorities that he dumped his 5-year-old daughter Natalie in the woods north of Mobile in March and discarded 3-year-old Chase’s body, dressed in only a diaper and stuffed into a plastic garbage bag, in Mississippi in June. Authorities believe the skeletal remains found in the woods of rural Mississippi Wednesday are those of the little boy, but they’re conducting tests to confirm the identity. Natalie’s body has yet to be found.
DeBlase is charged with two counts of murder, child abuse and corpse abuse in their deaths.
Police aren’t ready yet to charge Leavell-Keaton with killing either of the children, but arrest warrants in the case accuse her of abusing the young children.
According to documents, between March 1 and November 19, 2010, DeBlase allowed Leavell-Keaton to bind the girl’s hands and feet with duct tape, put a sock in her mouth and stuff her in a suitcase in a closet for about 14 hours, reports CBS affiliate WKRG.
The warrants also detail how Leavell-Keaton duct-taped the young boy’s hands to the side of his legs, strapped a broom handle to his back and shoved a sock in his mouth. The boy was then forced to stand in a corner all night while the adults went to bed.
Investigators only began searching for the bodies of Chase and Natalie just weeks ago, but police say they were last seen in March and June, respectively. Their disappearance wasn’t reported until Leavell-Keaton sought a protective order against DeBlase in Kentucky, according to Mobile police officer Chris Levy.
She said in the Nov. 18 filing that DeBlase “may have murdered his children,” and that she feared for her life because he was abusive. The couple just had a child together this summer.
“I am afraid that he is going to do something to harm our daughter because of what he as done to the other children,” she wrote.
Both DeBlase and Leavell-Keaton have accused each other for the children’s deaths.
“He’s placing the blame on Heather, and Heather’s placing the blame on him,” said Levy. “Both of them are ultimately responsible for the deaths.”
DeBlase pleaded not guilty to the lesser charges Wednesday and is due in court again Friday for a bond hearing on the murder charges. His attorney, Jim Sears, said DeBlase will plead not guilty to those charges as well.
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Arrest warrants describe the horrific abuse two young children allegedly suffered at the hands of their father and his girlfriend, including stuffing one of the children into a suitcase for 14 hours, before the children were allegedly killed by their dad.
As the grim details surrounding the children’s death surface, police have announced they believe they found the remains of 3-year-old Chase DeBlase, allegedly dumped in the Mississippi woods by his father, John Deblase, in March.
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Police are also scouring woods in rural Alabama for the body of 5-year-old Natalie DeBlase, who police allege was killed and discarded by her father in June.
The arrest warrant details bizarre punishments allegedly devised for the children. It charges DeBlase with allowing his girlfriend, Heather Leavell-Keaton, to create a night-long torture for Chase while the parents went to bed.
“Allowing Heather Leavell-Keaton (his girlfriend) to duck-tape the childs hands to the side of his legs, tape a broom handle to his back, placing a sock in his mouth and duck-taping it to his mouth, then making the child stand in a corner all night when they went to bed,” the warrant says.
Police have not yet given a cause of death for Chase or Natalie although they believe the abuse played a major factor.
“We have not determined cause of death,” Assistant District Attorney Joe Beth Murphree told ABC News. “Remains found yesterday and the medical examiner is looking at remains at this time. Even if exact cause cannot be determine we believe homicide can still be proved.”
According to police Natalie was not spared the monstrous abuse doled out by DeBlase and Leavell-Keaton, his girlfriend since 2008.
A separate arrest warrant outlines that DeBlase allegedly allowed Leavell-Keaton to “duck-tape” Natalie’s hands and feet before stuffing her in a suitcase.
“Duck-tape the child’s hands and feet, place a sock in her mouth, place her inside a black suitcase and leave it inside a closet from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m.,” the warrant says.
Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said that Chase’s body was stuffed inside a black garbage bag, wearing only a diaper, by his father close to the road because DeBlase allegedly didn’t want to get lost on his way back to his vehicle.
According to police little Chase DeBlase’s remains stayed hidden there for over six months, and for Mobile Police Officer Chris Levy, that’s one of the most troubling parts of this story.
“The fact for six months a child was dead and nobody reported it. For six months,” Levy said to ABC News today.
Levy said the birth mother and grandparents of the children have been questioned as to why they didn’t report the children missing, and according to him they gave reasons, “no good reasons,” though he said.
Equally as troubling, Levy said detectives later found a number neighbors and associates of DeBlase and Leavell-Keaton who claimed they witnessed the children being abused numerous times.
“We have all these people coming forward now who say they saw them hit the children with objects, they say they saw burns on the children that required medical attention, and nobody called the police. Where were those people a year ago when these children were actually in danger?” Levy said.
DeBlase has been charged with two-counts of murder. He has not yet entered a plea and does not yet have a lawyer. Leavell-Keaton is in jail in Kentucky, arrested on child-abuse charges, may be extradited to Alabama today, Murphree said.
Leavell-Keaton may face more serious charges.
“It’s a very intense investigation going 24/7. If murder charges can be brought, they will be brought,” Murphree said.
Police say DeBlase and Leavell-Keaton, who have an infant daughter together, are blaming each other for killing the children. Their surviving child is currently in protective custody, according to police.
According to police documents, the grisly story came to the attention of police on Nov. 18 when a family member of Leavell-Keaton allegedly told police she feared the children were dead, a report from the Louisville Police Department states.
Police contacted Leavell-Keaton, and began interviewing neighbors of associates of the couple. The report says at that point she requested a restraining order against DeBlase out of fear he may harm their infant daughter.
“I am afraid that he is going to do something to harm our daughter,” the statement says.
“I feel he may have murdered his children because he said that they were nonresponsive,” Leavell-Keaton allegedly told police according to the report.
“Choices were made this morning, and he had to do what he had to do,” Heather Leavell Keaton told police DeBlase said to her, according to the report.
According to police, the couple had moved to Louisville from Mobile several months ago.
Officer Carey Klain of the Louisville Police told ABC News that as they filed Heather Leavell Keaton’s request for a restraining order and took down her report on the children, detectives from Mobile spoke to several people who indicated they witnesses her abuse the children on numerous occasions. At that point Levy said she was arrested on charges of child abuse.
Klain said her department placed Heather Leavell Keaton in custody and the Mobile police triggered a national missing children’s report as they began to try to locate DeBlase and the children.
DeBlase was picked up on Dec. 2 in Florida. According to a report out of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s office, DeBlase had been staying in Florida with friend Randall Melville since Nov. 30.
Mellville says he received a phone call from an associate who, according to the police report, told Melville he saw a television report about DeBlase being wanted in connection with the disappearance of his children.
“Melville said he asked John about this information which John then got up yelling ‘I didn’t do it,’ and left the residence,” the police report states.
DeBlase was picked up by police a short time later, and he again allegedly blurted out to the officers, “I didn’t do it,” the report says.
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A woman sentenced to die by a Mobile County jury will be headed back to court later this month after her sentence was overturned.
Heather Leavell-Keaton, the first woman in Mobile County history to be sent to death row, will face a hearing Oct. 13 in Mobile County Circuit Court where she will be resentenced for her 2015 capital murder conviction.
Leavell-Keaton, along with her common-law husband John DeBlase, were convicted of torturing and killing his two children, four-year-old Natalie and three-year-old Chase, in 2010.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Tuesday ruled that Leavell-Keaton did not have a chance to address the court prior to her sentencing back in 2015. Leavell-Keaton displayed no emotion during her sentencing, according to a report at the time.
“To be clear, the trial court is not to hold a full capital-conviction sentencing hearing, which has already occurred,” the court ruled. Instead, the court will allow her to speak, take into consideration anything she may say, and sentence her to either death or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, the court ruled.
According to prosecutors, Natalie was choked to death in March 2010 after being duct-taped and placed in a suitcase which was set in a closet for 12 hours. Her body was later dumped in a wooded area near Citronelle.
Chase was choked to death in June 2010 when he was taped to a broom handle and left in the corner of the couple’s bedroom overnight. His body was found in the woods outside Vancleave, Miss.
Prosecutors claimed that Leavell-Keaton was jealous of Natalie and bristled when friends and family members called her a princess. Chase was killed when he asked where Natalie was
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Khalief Spencer Teen Killer Murders 3 People
Khalief Spencer was fifteen years old when he murdered three people. According to court documents Khalief would shoot and kill the first two people in a brazen attack and a few weeks later Spencer would shoot and kill a third person. Police in Alabama also suspect that Spencer is responsible for at least one more murder.
When the case finally hit trial four years later Spencer would take a last minute plea agreement where he plead guilty to three counts of intentional murder and a twenty five year prison sentence. If he had gone to court and was found guilty he would have automatically faced a prison sentence of life without parole. This teen killer must serve at least eighteen years in prison before he will eligible for parole.
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A Jefferson County judge sentenced a teenage killer to 25 years in prison after his plea deal ended a week-long trial.
Khalief Spencer had been on trial for capital murder for three killings in Birmingham in 2015 when he was 15 years old.
Thursday’s plea deal came during jury deliberations. It reduced the charge from capital murder to intentional murder.
Spencer will have to serve at least 18 years in prison before he’ll be eligible for parole.
He’ll turn 44 in prison if he serves the entire 25 year sentence.
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A Birmingham man pleaded guilty Thursday morning to three murders he committed when he was just 15-years-old.
Khalief Marquise Spencer, now 19, had been charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three people in 2015. He entered the guilty plea while a jury deliberated his fate.
The jury began deliberations Wednesday and had indicated they were hung 11-1 in favor of finding Spencer guilty. As they prepared to resume deliberations, Spencer took a deal that he had previously turned down when it was offered to him pre-trial with approval from the victims’ families.
Spencer was charged in the Oct. 23, 2015 slayings of Kenneth Davidson and Shundria Peoples, and the Nov. 14, 2015 killing of Tramone Mitchell. Investigators said at the time of his arrest they also suspected him a fourth slaying and said he “has definitely distinguished himself as a killer.”
In pleading guilty to all three slayings, Spencer was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He must serve 18 years before he is even eligible for parole.
The bodies of Davidson, 34, and Peoples, 26, were discovered about 3:30 a.m. on that Friday morning. The Birmingham Police Department’s ShotSpotter system, which detects shots and triangulates gunfire, alerted police to the shooting. When officers arrived on the scene at Woodward Park, they found the pair in the front seat of the Ford Taurus, which was still running.
The victims were shot multiple times in their chests. Medics pronounced them dead on the scene at 4 a.m. Davidson was from Bessemer; Peoples from Birmingham.
In the second, Mitchell was one of two men found shot inside a green 2006 BMW just before 6:30 p.m. on a Saturday outside an apartment complex near the intersection of Cotton Avenue Southwest and 13th Street. Mitchell, a rapper also known as “Lil Mone,” was found in the driver’s seat with gunshot wounds to the face and the shoulder. He was pronounced dead on the scene. His passenger was shot in the groin area and taken to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Authorities said the surviving victim told investigators two men called him earlier about buying some marijuana. He set up the meeting between Mitchell and the two men. Once Mitchell arrived on the scene, the men opened fire and fled the scene.
In both cases, he said, detectives were able to locate key witnesses who were able to identify the teen as the shooter
Dominic Keeth, then 19, was also charged in Mitchell’s slaying and in the wounding of the second man. Keeth in August pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was sentenced to 20 years in prison with three to serve. The capital murder charge against him was dismissed.
Spencer’s trial began Monday and moved quickly. Included in testimony were jail phone calls in which Spencer was actively working to keep a witness from coming to court to testify against him.
The case was prosecuted by Jefferson County deputy district attorneys Shawn Allen and Matthew Casey. Allen said the outcome was certainly not what he had hoped but acceptable under the circumstances of a possible hung jury in a case that happened four years ago. The Mitchell case was the strongest of those in which Spencer was charged.
“It doesn’t feel like a win,’’ Allen said. “He absolutely deserved life or life without. It’s not what I hoped for.”
Allen commended the work of the Birmingham Police Department, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and the Metro Area Crime Center.
Spencer was represented by Emory Anthony, who said the plea was an offer his client couldn’t refuse considering he was facing three capital murder charges. “My heart goes out to the families,’’ Anthony said.
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