No execution date has been set for Kerry Spencer, who admits killing three cops.
But the former attorney for Kerry Spencer, the man convicted of gunning down three police officers in a Birmingham crack house in 2004, said he hopes the execution will put a final nail in the death penalty in Alabama and the 28 other states where it still exists.
King called the decisions of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey not to intervene and the U.S. Supreme Court not to halt Woods' death"reprehensible" and a"mockery of justice and constitutional guarantees to a fair trial."Flowers said that despite Spencer claiming he acted alone in the 2004 Birmingham triple murder, he might end up never being put to death.
Martin Luther King III speaks onstage during an event at the Town Hall, Feb. 28, 2020 in New York City.As one of her first acts as Alabama's governor, Ivey, whose decision condemned Woods to death, signed the bill. Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related to"It's inherently arbitrary to say that some practice is so unreliable that it's unconstitutional and then to allow death sentences that were imposed based on that unreliable practice to stand," Dunham told ABC News.
While Louisianans voted in November 2018 to repeal non-unanimous jury verdicts, Louisiana convict Evangelisto Ramos, who maintains his innocence in a gruesome murder case, wants the high court to force the state to apply their new rules retroactively and give him a new trial. Ramos was convicted by 10 of 12 jurors in his second-degree murder trial and sentenced to life without parole.
"Woods got terrible representation and there are all sorts of issues that were never raised and all sorts of evidence that was never presented that was presented in Spencer's case," Dunham said. The officer who survived the shooting testified at Woods' trial that Woods cursed at officers when they initially arrived at his home and challenged one to take off his badge and fight him, according to trial transcripts included in Woods' appeal.
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