View Full Version : ALABAMA----74-year-old man receives (new) execution date


softheart
06-22-2004, 09:28 PM
74 years old, oh come on this is ridiculous.......
softie.... :angry:




21st June

State Supreme Court sets Aug. 5 execution for Tuscaloosa man


In Montgomery, the Alabama Supreme Court on Monday set an Aug. 5 execution
date for James Barney Hubbard, convicted in the 1977 shooting death of a
woman in Tuscaloosa.

Hubbard, now 74, was convicted by a Tuscaloosa County jury in the Jan. 10,
1977 killing of Lillian Montgomery at her Tuscaloosa home. The victim died
of 3 gunshot wounds to the head, face and shoulder.

Hubbard, who was living with Montgomery at the time, contended she
committed suicide.

Last year a 3-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied
Hubbard's challenge to his 1982 conviction.

Hubbard contended a statement he gave to police should not have been
allowed as evidence, that the jury should not have been told about his
1957 2nd-degree murder conviction and that his court-appointed attorneys
were ineffective.

(source: Associated Press)

Kyla
06-23-2004, 12:12 AM
Thats absolutely ridicolous :(

Pam
06-23-2004, 03:04 AM
I agree that this is the most obsurd thing I have ever heard. I told you all the folks down here in Alabama were just out for revenge. God Bless this man and his family.