Mobile County DA Keith Blackwood has upgraded the charge against Kanedrea Davis to capital murder, alleging she killed both Chyna Hickman and Hickman’s unborn child in a shooting the victim’s brother says began over a $15 lash deposit.
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Coverage of capital murder from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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After 15 Years on Death Row, Capital Murder Case Against Former Trooper George Martin Dismissed
A Mobile County judge threw out the capital murder case against former state trooper George Martin, who spent 15 years on death row, citing willful prosecutor misconduct in the 1995 death of his wife.
Crime
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Appeals Ruling Sends Mobile County Death Penalty Case Back for Resentencing
An appellate ruling voiding one of four murder counts means a Mobile County death sentence must be reconsidered, though prosecutors expect it to stand.
Baldwin County
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Baldwin Jury Convicts David Coombs of Capital Murder
After a nearly three-week trial in Bay Minette, a Baldwin County jury deliberated just 75 minutes before convicting David Coombs of capital murder in the 2009 robbery and shooting of a Pensacola gold dealer.
Baldwin County
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Baldwin County’s Longest-Serving Prosecutor Weighs His Options
Baldwin County District Attorney David Whetstone, three months into a new six-year term, acknowledged in April 2005 that retirement rumors were circulating and that some of them were true.