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| Man being removed from Alabama Death Row |
| By al.com- Kent Faulk |
| Published: 01/15/2015 |
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After spending nearly 30 years awaiting execution for the deaths of two Birmingham area fast-food restaurant managers, Anthony Ray Hinton will be removed from Alabama Death Row in the next few weeks to await a new trial in the slayings. Meanwhile, prosecutors are trying to track down witnesses from the first trial and searching to see what physical evidence may still be available to decide how, or even if, they have enough to prosecute Hinton again. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Laura Petro on Wednesday ordered the Alabama Department of Corrections to bring Hinton from death row at Holman Prison to the county jail to await a new trial in the 1985 slayings. The judge in October had overturned Hinton's conviction and ordered he be retried in the wake of rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court and Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Read More. |
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