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Sentence commuted for death row inmate
Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a death row inmate after a number of former public officials and the current district attorney raised doubts about his conviction.
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The case centers around the 1995 murder of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff William Hardy, who was shot twice in the head while working off-duty security at a hotel.
Governor Kay Ivey Tuesday commuted Toforest Johnson’s death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole, pulling a Birmingham man off death row after nearly three decades for the 1995 murder of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff William Hardy.
Johnson was convicted of capital murder in 1998 for the 1995 death of Jefferson County Deputy William G. Hardy, who was shot to death while working a part-time security job for a Birmingham hotel.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a death-row inmate after a number of former public officials, and the current district attorney, raised doubts about his conviction.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a death row inmate after a number of former public officials and the current district attorney raised doubts about his conviction.
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