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    Scott Lamar Abbott Sentenced To LWOP in 2009 AL Quadruple Murder

    Jury deliberates whether to recommend death penalty for convicted killer Scott Lamar Abbott


    Twelve people are meeting in Bessemer today to decide whether to recommend the death penalty for Scott Lamar Abbott, who was convicted Friday of stabbing and slashing four people to death in a Hueytown house last year.
    The jury started deliberating about 11 a.m. after hearing arguments from the prosecution and defense.




    One of Abbott's defense attorneys asked the jury to recommend Abbott spend the rest of his life in prison without a chance for parole.
    He encouraged the jury to consider that Abbott had no significant criminal record prior to the Hueytown slayings and that Abbott spent his childhood in the child welfare system and endured sexual abuse and maternal abuse. He also asked the jury to consider Abbott's self-mutilation and attempts at suicide.
    The defense attorney quoted the Bible and Martin Luther King Jr., arguing for mercy and forgiveness.
    A prosecutor told the jury it's not their role to decide whether Abbott deserves forgiveness. That's up to God and the families of the victims, he said. The jury's duty is to weigh the evidence to decide whether they should recommend the state kill Abbott, the prosecutor said.
    Circuit Judge Mac Parsons will take the jury's recommendation into consideration in deciding Abbott's sentence but is not bound by the jury's recommendation.
    Abbott, who attacked a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy Saturday night, came into the courtroom this morning in his orange jail clothes wearing shackles on his hands and feet, a chain around his waist and an electronic ankle bracelet. He went into another room, where he changed into a shirt and tie and had all restraints removed except for his electronic ankle bracelet. The jury never saw him in shackles.


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    Movement seeks death penalty for convicted killer

    A movement has formed to encourage a Jefferson County judge to sentence a convicted killer to death for the murder of four people in Hueytown.

    Randy Syx is leading a letter-writing and petition effort against Judge Mac Parsons, the judge in the capital murder case of Scott Lamar Abbott. Abbott was convicted October 8 of killing four people in a Hueytown home in 2009.

    The jury in the case recommended Abbott be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

    Syx has started a petition, asking Judge Parsons to overturn the recommendation and sentence Abbott to death. In the petition, Syx said there are plenty of legal reasons for Judge Parsons to do so.

    Judge Parsons is scheduled to hand down his sentence on December 1, 2010.

    http://www.myfoxal.com/Global/story.asp?S=13371589

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    2 families gather 4,000 signatures urging death penalty for killer of 4 in Hueytown

    The family members of two victims of a March 2009 quadruple homicide in Hueytown said they have collected more than 4,000 signatures on a petition seeking the death penalty for the man convicted of killing their loved ones.

    Pam Gilbert, the mother of one of the victims, Gilbert's boyfriend Randy Syx, and Brooke Gilleo, the sister of another victim, are trying to persuade Jefferson County Circuit Judge Mac Parsons to overturn an October recommendation from a jury to spare the life of Scott Lamar Abbott.

    Abbott was found guilty of capital murder in the March 2009 stabbing deaths of Nika Sandlin, Jerri Lynn Cole, Josh Gilleo and Chad Gilbert.

    Parsons is scheduled to formally sentence Abbott on Wednesday.<CM+NT Dec. 1 -NT> Syx, Gilbert and Gilleo plan to hold a "peaceful" rally on the courthouse steps that day in a final effort to persuade Parsons to sentence Abbott to death.

    "We were heartbroken," Syx said of the jury's recommendation. "If anybody deserves the death penalty, it is Scott Lamar Abbott."

    Brooke Gilleo said the jury's recommendation was a letdown, "but we knew we would have to come to terms with it."

    Syx said he and Gilbert decided then to do whatever they could to get the justice they feel Chad Gilbert deserves.

    On the day after a jury recommended Abbott spend the rest of his life in prison, Syx said he and Pam Gilbert went to her son's grave. "I watched her kneel down and tell Chad that she was going to fight for him as hard as he fought for his life," Syx said. "We have spent every waking minute doing just that."

    Syx and Pam Gilbert collected signatures at polling places on election day, passed out petitions at several small businesses and mailed letters to residents of west Jefferson County to garner their support. Brooke Gilleo said she helped start an online petition so people who live outside of western Jefferson County could sign.

    Syx started a Facebook page to support the effort and turned his white pickup truck into a traveling advertisement with red-lettered signs that read "12 said life without parole, thousands say death penalty."

    Not all of the victims' families agree. The families of Cole and Sandlin have said they are not in favor of the death penalty.

    "The man needs to suffer in prison," said Sharon Higgins, the mother of Cole. "I think he needs to spend the rest of his life in jail, looking over his back."

    http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/11/...0_signatu.html

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    Abbott gets life in prison for quadruple murder

    At the end of his sentencing trial, convicted murderer Scott Abbott addressed the families of the four victims he killed in Hueytown in March 2009. The judge granted Abbott's request to face the family members of Jeri Lyn Cole, Nikia Sandlin, Josh Gileo and Chad Gilbert, all of whom he stabbed to death.

    "I can understand where the pain comes from. I cry every night and am so sorry," Abbott said. He added that since becoming a Christian, he prays for the victims' families every night.

    "No tears come now because I've cried myself so numb. I lose sleep every night. I did not mean to do this. It was truly an act of rage," he said.

    Abbott then spoke about each of the four victims by name, acknowledging his relationship with each one. He said he "truly loved" Jeri Lyn Cole, his ex-girlfriend who was 27 at the time of her murder.

    The defense attorney spoke about Abbott's difficult childhood of abandonment and abuse. Abbott also has a history of mental disease.

    The victims' family members have made it clear they want Abbott to receive the death penalty. The held a peaceful protest on the Jefferson County courthouse steps today to make their wishes public. In October, a jury recommended a sentencing of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    The sentencing began at 2:00 p.m. and at approximately 3:40 p.m. the judge ruled to uphold the jury's recommendation and give Abbott a sentence of life in prison without parole.

    http://www.myfoxal.com/Global/story.asp?S=13598159

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