20 local inmates remain on death row
Updated: Friday, 20 May 2011, 12:07 AM CDT
Published : Thursday, 19 May 2011, 8:22 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 19 May 2011, 8:22 PM CDT
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - There is no shortage of Mobile and Baldwin county prisoners awaiting execution.
According to the Alabama Department of Corrections , out of the 202 inmates in state's 3 death rows, 6 are from Baldwin County and 14 are from Mobile County. That's roughly 10 percent of those on death row.
They range from those who admit being cold blooded killers to those who insist they are innocent. But unless the courts intervene, all of their lives will end with a needle in their vein as a lethal cocktail of chemicals knocks them out then stops their heart. The list includes:
- Jarrod Taylor was convicted of the execution-style slaying of 3 people at a used car dealership on Government Boulevard right before Christmas in 1997.
- Garrett Dotch, who in 2006, ambushed his former girlfriend outside the sandwich shop where she worked on Old Shell Road.
- Donald Deardorff, who was convicted of the murder of Eastern Shore minister Ted Turner. Before his sentencing, Deardorff told the court, "Bring the death penalty. It doesn’t scare me. It's what the state wants, so bring the death penalty". Deardorff has been sitting on Death Row for 10 years.
- Calvin Stallworth was convicted of killing 2 Baldwin County convenience store clerks in December, 1997.
- Former Alabama State Trooper George Martin is still fighting his conviction. He was found guilty of killing his wife Hammoketh, whose body was found in a burned out car in 1995.
The case of Jeremy Jones was in the news for months. The self-professed serial killer was sentenced to die for raping and killing Lisa Nichols inside her Turnerville home. At Jones’ sentencing, he told Judge Charles Graddick that his attorneys wanted him to beg for mercy, but he said, "I don't know how to do that, and I'm not going to do that." He also threatened the judge saying, "If you put me to death then you too shall be put to death yourself."
And there was Lam Luong, who faces death for throwing his 4 children off the Dauphin Island Bridge. Judge Graddick also heard that case, and ordered that Luong be shown pictures of his children, every day, until the day he dies. Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson, Jr, told Fox 10 News, “I had not anticipated that. But the court was so moved by the facts of this case and those pictures are now law in this case."
And there was Lam Luong, who faces death for throwing his 4 children off the Dauphin Island Bridge. Judge Graddick also heard that case, and ordered that Luong be shown pictures of his children, every day, until the day he dies. Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson, Jr, told Fox 10 News, “I had not anticipated that. But the court was so moved by the facts of this case and those pictures are now law in this case."
Timothy Jones, who was sent to death row for the murders of his parents in Monroeville, is no longer there. He killed himself 4 years ago.
Gerald Patrick Lewis, sentenced to death for the murder of a Baldwin County woman, died on Alabama's death row in 2009.
There was also Samuel Ivery, who told our cameras, “I'm the sweetest, kindest, most caring person you'll ever meet in life or in all eternity, even though I killed three people”. Ivery, who beheaded a gas station attendant in 1994 and claimed that God told him to come to Mobile to kill her, committed suicide before he had a chance to be executed.
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