Its justices ultimately elected not to intervene in his execution, and at 9:01 p.m., Woods, 43, died by lethal injection. Supreme Court stay bought Woods a few more hours. Kay Ivey’s chief of staff, Jo Bonner, said he would relay the message to other officials and suggested that Simmons should expect a call back.īut the murder victim’s sister never heard from another Alabama official, even after a temporary U.S. “I’m asking for mercy, and I believe my brother would want me to take a stance because of the man he was.” “He didn’t kill my brother, and he didn’t kill the other officers, may they rest in peace,” Kimberly Chisholm Simmons, the sister of murdered officer Harley Chishom III, pleaded during the call that started around 5:50 p.m on March 5. No execution date has been set for Spencer.Ten minutes before Nathaniel Woods was scheduled to be executed for his role in the 2004 murder of three police officers, the chief of staff to the governor of Alabama received a desperate phone call from the sister of one of the slain cops. Spencer told The Appeal in an article about the case that Woods was “100% innocent.” “Kerry Spencer the actual shooter has stated many times that he did it on his own with no help from anyone.” “He is actually innocent,” Pamela Woods told reporters outside the prison before her brother’s execution. Supporters had waged a last-minute appeal to block the execution as the case drew national attention. As such, the jury did not view Woods’ acts as those of an innocent bystander they believed that he was a fully engaged participant,” the statement said. “In fact, he later bragged about his participation in these horrific murders. In a statement after the execution, Ivey said “there is no evidence, and no argument has been made, that Nathaniel Woods tried to stop the gunman from committing these heinous crimes.”
Ivey’s general counsel sent Woods’ attorneys a letter before the execution saying the governor’s review of the case determined clemency was “unwarranted.” Ivey denied clemency in the case ahead of the execution. At Woods’ 2005 trial, a prosecutor told jurors that Woods was the “bait” and lured officers into the apartment. State lawyers wrote in court filings that Woods said he was surrendering to officers and soon after Spencer opened fire with a high-powered rifle.
Testimony showed the officers approached a small house where Woods and Spencer were believed to be dealing drugs at least two other people were also inside. Woods told reporters Thursday her brother had received bad legal counsel. Kerry Spencer, who confessed to pulling the trigger, also drew a death sentence and remains on Alabama’s death row. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall had also publicly urged to let the execution proceed. Supreme Court turned down an 11th-hour request to stay the execution. »RELATED: Alabama executes Nathaniel Woods
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and others who argued it was unfair to execute a man who didn’t pull the trigger in the slaying and whose trial was riddled with problems. That included support from the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Authorities acknowledged he was not the triggerman in the slayings, but prosecutors maintained he was a culpable accomplice.Īlabama’s first execution of the year came after a last-minute bid to stop it. Woods was convicted of capital murder in the 2004 slayings of three Birmingham police officers. 'YOU KILLED MY BROTHER': The sister of Alabama inmate Nathaniel Woods, who was executed last week for the deaths of three Birmingham police officers, confronted in Montgomery Thursday /k7fpJNyqcH- #WVTM13 March 12, 2020
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