Post by Anja Nieser on Sept 8, 2006 1:20:05 GMT -5
Longtime death row inmate's appeal rejected
A man who has been on Alabama's death row for 25 years lost his latest
appeal to avoid execution.
Darrell Grayson, who was 19 when he and an accomplice murdered and raped
an elderly Montevallo woman in 1980, failed to persuade Atlanta-based 11th
U-S Circuit Court of Appeals to allow him access to biological evidence
for D-N-A testing.
The evidence is from his 1981 capital murder trial in Shelby County.
Grayson's capital murder conviction stems from the brutal beating and
suffocation death of 86-year-old Annie Laura Orr. Relatives found her body
on Christmas Eve morning with a pillow wrapped around her head, secured by
masking tape.
The court ruled the men were not convicted of rape so the D-N-A evidence
would not affect the capital murder verdict.
Grayson's accomplice, Victor Kennedy, was executed in 1999.
(source: Associated Press)
A man who has been on Alabama's death row for 25 years lost his latest
appeal to avoid execution.
Darrell Grayson, who was 19 when he and an accomplice murdered and raped
an elderly Montevallo woman in 1980, failed to persuade Atlanta-based 11th
U-S Circuit Court of Appeals to allow him access to biological evidence
for D-N-A testing.
The evidence is from his 1981 capital murder trial in Shelby County.
Grayson's capital murder conviction stems from the brutal beating and
suffocation death of 86-year-old Annie Laura Orr. Relatives found her body
on Christmas Eve morning with a pillow wrapped around her head, secured by
masking tape.
The court ruled the men were not convicted of rape so the D-N-A evidence
would not affect the capital murder verdict.
Grayson's accomplice, Victor Kennedy, was executed in 1999.
(source: Associated Press)