Nathaniel Woods didn't pull the trigger but was an accomplice in the murders of three police officers in 2004, according to prosecutors.
― An Alabama man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday for his role in the 2004 killing of three police officers at his apartment where they were attempting to arrest him for dealing drugs., 43, will be put to death at 7 p.m. ET at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, for the murders of Birmingham police officers Carlos Owen, Harley Chisholm and Charles Bennett.
“This belief was based on trial counsel’s failure to effectively and fully explain the theory of accomplice liability to Mr.,” his attorney wrote in a 2019 petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, which was ultimately denied. Martin Luther King III, the son of the late civil rights leader, wrote a letter to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, asking her to halt the execution.
“Killing this African American man, whose case appears to have been strongly mishandled by the courts, could produce an irreversible injustice,” he wrote in the letter he posted on Twitter.would be the first inmate in Alabama and the fifth in the United States to be executed in 2020. Alabama executed four inmates in 2019, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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