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    Michael Wayne Reynolds - Alabama Death Row


    Michael Wayne Reynolds


    Facts of the Crime:

    Sentenced to death for robbery and slaying of a Gadsden couple, 38-year-old Chuck Martin and his 31-year-old wife, Melinda, and their eight-year-old daughter, Savannah at the Martins' home on May 25, 2003.

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    December 7, 2007

    GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) - A judge has sentenced Michael Reynolds to death for his capital murder conviction in the 2003 slayings of a North Gadsden family.

    Reynolds showed no apparent remorse at Thursday's sentencing by Etowah County Circuit Judge Allen Millican, who adopted the jury's recommended penalty. An appeal is automatic in Alabama death penalty cases.

    Reynolds was convicted in the stabbing deaths of Chuck Martin, 38; his wife, Melinda, 31; and their 8-year-old daughter, Savanah, at the Martins' home on Tidmore Bend Road on May 25, 2003.

    The judge said the killings were heinous and atrocious and the crimes fit the criteria for the death penalty, The Gadsden Times reported in a story Friday. Reynolds killed the child as an afterthought to keep her from identifying her killer, Millican said.

    Marcie West, Reynolds' former girlfriend, testified during the trial she and Reynolds went to the Martin home to get money and it was Reynolds who killed the family.

    West said Reynolds stabbed her when she tried to stop him from stabbing Melinda Martin.

    Reynolds, however, testified and said he did not kill the family. He admitted to being at the house to try to cover up the crime for West, who, he said, witnessed the crimes.

    Jurors heard forensic testimony about the 11 stab wounds to Chuck Martin and the struggle in his kitchen, along with details about the 24 stab wounds and the struggle Melinda Martin gave her attackers and the five wounds that killed Savanah Martin, including one stab that pierced her neck.

    West was charged with hindering prosecution in 2003 after she destroyed evidence.

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    On October 1, 2010, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Reynolds' death sentence on direct appeal.

    http://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-...s/1540275.html

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Reynolds' petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
    Case Nos.: (CR-07-0443)
    Decision Date: October 1, 2010
    Discretionary Court
    Decision Date: December 14, 2012
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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Reynolds' petition for rehearing was DENIED.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...s/12-10278.htm

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    On February 9, 2018, Reynolds filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/al...cv00236/165336

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    Reynolds’ habeas petition denied by the federal district court.

    An evidentiary hearing is also denied.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...236/165336/39/
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    On November 23, 2022, Reynolds filed an appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci.../ca11/22-14015
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