Alabama sets execution date for inmate convicted in 1988 Colbert County murder-for-hire
He and another man were each paid $1,000 to kill the woman on behalf of her husband, a local pastor.
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He and another man were each paid $1,000 to kill the woman on behalf of her husband, a local pastor.
A judge overrode the jury's recommendation of a life sentence and sentenced Smith to death
Alabama has set a November execution date for a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of a pastor’s wife. Fifty-seven-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith is set to die at Holman Correctional Facility on Nov. 17. Smith was sentenced to death for killing of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, a 45-year-old grandmother and pastor’s wife. Prosecutors said Smith was one of two men who were each paid $1,000 to kill the woman on behalf of her husband. Her husband later killed himself. A judge overrode a jury's recommendation of life imprisonment to sentence Smith to death. The scheduled executi...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama has set a November execution date for a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of a pastor's wife. The
Following AL's failed attempt to execute Alan Miller, calls to suspend executions in the state are growing.