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Alabama's death penalty laws have been front and center this week, as the state scheduled the execution of inmate Casey McWhorter and a jury in St. Clair County

From The Trussville Tribune staff reports TRUSSVILLE — The capital murder trial of a man accused of shooting another man in the parking lot of the Trussville Cracker Barrel has been reset for the fifth time. The trial is now scheduled for Monday, June 28, 2021. Bryan Hancock, 23, is charged with capital murder in the March 28, 2019, death of Randy Dewayne Young. The trial was supposed to begin on Monday, April 19, but it was rescheduled Monday morning. Young was shot in the head in the parkin...

By Erica Thomas, managing editor TRUSSVILLE — The case of Bryan Hancock, the man accused in the March 28, 2019, shooting in the parking lot of the Trussville Cracker Barrel, will be heard in front of a Jefferson County Judge on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Attorneys representing Hancock said the Stand Your Ground hearing, which will take place in front of Judge Clyde Jones, will be an opportunity for the court to hear Hancock’s side of the story. Hancock is charged with capital murder in the d...