Jerry Bohannon—white, age 47
Sentenced to death in Mobile County, Alabama
By: a judge after an 11-1 jury recommendation of death
Date of crime: 2010
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Bohannon killed Jerry Duboise and Anthony Harvey in a gun battle outside a tavern. Bohannon claimed self-defense.
Sources: Press-Register (Mobile) 1/10/14
By: a judge after an 11-1 jury recommendation of death
Date of crime: 2010
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Bohannon killed Jerry Duboise and Anthony Harvey in a gun battle outside a tavern. Bohannon claimed self-defense.
Sources: Press-Register (Mobile) 1/10/14
Jordaan Creque—black, age 21
Sentenced to death in Morgan County, Alabama
By: a judge (jury recommendation unknown)
Date of crime: 8/24/11
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Creque and two cohorts killed two restaurant employees, Jeffrey Graff and Jessie Aguilar, in the restaurant’s walk-in cooler during a robbery. Creque claimed that he had accidentally shot Graff and that a cohort had shot Aguilar. The defense presented mitigating evidence that Creque was a hard-working, well-mannered young man who had no significant prior criminal history, and had suffered physical and mental abuse as a child.
Sources: Decatur Daily 10/15/13, 1/16/14
By: a judge (jury recommendation unknown)
Date of crime: 8/24/11
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Creque and two cohorts killed two restaurant employees, Jeffrey Graff and Jessie Aguilar, in the restaurant’s walk-in cooler during a robbery. Creque claimed that he had accidentally shot Graff and that a cohort had shot Aguilar. The defense presented mitigating evidence that Creque was a hard-working, well-mannered young man who had no significant prior criminal history, and had suffered physical and mental abuse as a child.
Sources: Decatur Daily 10/15/13, 1/16/14
Cedric Floyd—black, age 29
Sentenced to death in Escambia County, Alabama
By: a judge (jury recommendation unknown)
Date of crime: 1/1/11
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Floyd killed his ex-girlfriend Tina Roshell Jones by breaking into her house by crashing through her bedroom window. He pinned her to the floor and shot her twice in the head. The police were watching Jones’s house due to her fear of Floyd, and she was to signal for help by turning the porch light on. However, she was unable to get to the light switch.
Sources: Atmore Advance 9/10/13, 10/9/13
By: a judge (jury recommendation unknown)
Date of crime: 1/1/11
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Floyd killed his ex-girlfriend Tina Roshell Jones by breaking into her house by crashing through her bedroom window. He pinned her to the floor and shot her twice in the head. The police were watching Jones’s house due to her fear of Floyd, and she was to signal for help by turning the porch light on. However, she was unable to get to the light switch.
Sources: Atmore Advance 9/10/13, 10/9/13
James Osgood—white, age 40
Sentenced to death in Chilton County, Alabama
By: a judge after a jury’s 12-0 recommendation for death
Date of crime: 10/13/10
Prosecution case/defense response: Osgood and his girlfriend kidnapped the girlfriend’s cousin, Tracy Brown, and forced her to perform sex acts on both of them. Osgood then cut Brown’s throat and stabbed her in the back. The defense presented mitigating evidence that Osgood had a childhood filled with physical, mental, and sexual abuse, as well as substance abuse issues.
Sources: Montgomery Advertiser 5/13/14, 5/14/14
By: a judge after a jury’s 12-0 recommendation for death
Date of crime: 10/13/10
Prosecution case/defense response: Osgood and his girlfriend kidnapped the girlfriend’s cousin, Tracy Brown, and forced her to perform sex acts on both of them. Osgood then cut Brown’s throat and stabbed her in the back. The defense presented mitigating evidence that Osgood had a childhood filled with physical, mental, and sexual abuse, as well as substance abuse issues.
Sources: Montgomery Advertiser 5/13/14, 5/14/14
Jerry Jerome Smith—black, age 25 (re-sentence after appellate reversal)
Sentenced to death in Houston County, Alabama
By: A judge after a jury recommendation
Date of crime: 10/19/96
Prosecution case/defense response: Smith shot three victims to death in a dispute over a drug debt. In mitigation he claimed that he had been high on drugs and alcohol, was under pressure to pay his drug supplier, and was provoked by one of the victim’s name-calling of his girlfriend. This re-sentence was the fourth time Smith had been sentenced to death, the three earlier sentencing proceedings having been found deficient by Alabama appellate courts (and an Alabama appellate court later reversed this one, as well, due to violation of the defendant’s right to a public trial during jury selection).
Sources: 2016 WL 3136194, 2000 WL 1868419.
By: A judge after a jury recommendation
Date of crime: 10/19/96
Prosecution case/defense response: Smith shot three victims to death in a dispute over a drug debt. In mitigation he claimed that he had been high on drugs and alcohol, was under pressure to pay his drug supplier, and was provoked by one of the victim’s name-calling of his girlfriend. This re-sentence was the fourth time Smith had been sentenced to death, the three earlier sentencing proceedings having been found deficient by Alabama appellate courts (and an Alabama appellate court later reversed this one, as well, due to violation of the defendant’s right to a public trial during jury selection).
Sources: 2016 WL 3136194, 2000 WL 1868419.