With the clock ticking to tonight's execution of Nathaniel Woods, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has given no indication she'll grant a reprieve—despite the condemned prisoner's supporters contending he did not take part in the slayings of three police officers.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.
Nathaniel Woods in an undated photo from the Alabama Dept. of Corrections. Martin Luther King, III, the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as family members of Woods, a condemned Alabama inmate, are asking the governor to to stop his execution. Woods is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, March 5, 2020. Woods and co-defendant Kerry Spencer were convicted of capital murder for the 2004 killings of three Birmingham police officers.
MORE: MLK III pleads with Alabama governor to stop execution of Nathanial Woods, convicted in slayings of 3 cops As of Thursday afternoon, more than 91,000 people had signed a petition on the website Change.org to stop the execution of Woods, who would become the first person executed in Alabama this year and the 67th since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Gov. Kay Ivey gives the State of the State Address to a joint session of the Alabama Legislature, Feb. 4, 2020, in the old house chamber of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.Spencer's trial was held before Woods' case was heard by a jury, but his execution date has yet to be set. Alabama State Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement Wednesday that Woods was"correctly found guilty and sentenced to death by a jury of his peers."
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