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    Jarrod Taylor - Alabama Death Row




    Summary of Offense:

    Sentenced to death in 1998 for the execution-style shooting deaths of Steve Dyas, Sherry Gaston and her husband, Bruce Gaston, at Dyas' car dealership on December 12, 1997.

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    The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals remanded Taylor's case back to the trial court for evidentiary hearings in an opinion issued on October 1, 2010.

    Opinion is here:

    http://scholar.google.com/scholar_ca...56274138618913

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    Alabama Supreme Court leaves Mobile man on death row for Midtown executions

    MOBILE, Alabama – Jarrod Taylor will continue his long wait on death row after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling on Friday.

    Taylor, who killed three people execution-style at a midtown car dealership in 1997, had petitioned the high court to review his records in the hopes of a new trial, but the request was denied. He has been on the Holman Prison death row in Atmore for about 16 years.

    Taylor was convicted of triple murder stemming from a burglary-gone-wrong at Steve Dyas Motors on Dec. 12, 1997. According to trial testimony, he and co-defendant Kenyatta McMillan were enacting a plan to rob the dealership when Taylor put a .380-caliber pistol to the heads of Steve Dyas and Bruce and Sherry Gaston and pulled the trigger.

    The victims were screaming, crying and begging for their lives when Taylor killed them, according to McMillan, the prosecution’s key witness. By testifying, McMillan avoided a possible death sentence, and was instead sentenced to life without parole.

    Taylor’s attorneys maintained their client was not the one who shot the victims. Dyas was the co-owner of the Government Boulevard dealership and had recently hired Sherry Gaston as a salesperson. Her husband, who was also shot in the chest, was an automobile wholesaler.

    According to McMillan’s testimony, Taylor “straddled” each victim on a hall floor at the dealership and shot each of them in the left side of the head. The three had planned on attending the company Christmas party hours later.

    Taylor and McMillan took wallets from the two men and a purse from the third victim before fleeing in a stolen Ford Mustang convertible. They were apprehended the next day in the car by Selma police.

    Taylor reportedly begged for his own life during his trial.

    Since he was convicted, the Criminal Court of Appeals has denied Taylor’s appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his petition.

    In denying Taylor's writ of certiorari on Friday, justices Main and Wise recused themselves, while the remaining justices concurred.

    http://blog.al.com/live/2014/04/alab..._will_not.html

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    On September 22, 2014, Taylor filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ala...4cv00439/56546

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    On January 25, 2018, Taylor's habeas petition was DENIED by US District Court Judge Steele (G.W. Bush).

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...00439/56546/50

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    On April 12, 2018, Taylor filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci.../ca11/18-11523

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Taylor's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    Case Numbers: (18-11523-P)
    Decision Date: October 5, 2018

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/18-1158.html

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    Mistake forces state to call off plans to execute triple-murderer

    By Mike Cason
    AL.com

    The state of Alabama’s plans to execute a man convicted in a triple-murder more than two decades ago are on hold after the belated discovery that he had opted for a new method of execution that has not been developed.

    On July 29, the attorney general’s office filed a motion asking the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for Jarrod Taylor, who killed three people during a robbery of a car dealership in Mobile in 1997.

    Taylor has been on death row since 1998 and had no pending appeals, the motion said. It said Taylor had not opted for nitrogen hypoxia, a method of execution that inmates could choose instead of lethal injection under a bill passed by the Legislature last year.

    But Taylor’s lawyer, Joshua Myrick, responded with a motion saying that Taylor had opted for nitrogen hypoxia before the June 30, 2018 deadline and had documentation to back that up.

    On Aug. 2, the attorney general’s office asked the Supreme Court to withdraw the request for an execution date.

    That motion says Taylor’s lawyer sent a copy of Taylor’s signed form electing nitrogen hypoxia dated June 28, 2018, as well as contemporaneous emails about Taylor’s decision.

    The motion says that Taylor indicated he signed two election forms, gave one to his lawyer and the other to an Alabama Department of Corrections employee to give to the warden. The motion says the attorney general’s office never received a copy of the form and that the ADOC did not have the form in its files.

    “Nevertheless, the documentation provided by Taylor’s counsel supports the assertion that he made a timely election of nitrogen hypoxia,” the AG’s motion says. “The State intends to honor that election.

    “As the ADOC is not yet prepared to proceed with an execution by nitrogen hypoxia, the state requests that it be allowed to withdraw its previous motion.” The Supreme Court granted the request on Aug. 6.

    Today, the attorney general’s office declined to comment beyond what was stated in the motion. The ADOC also declined comment.

    Fifty-one Alabama death row inmates opted for nitrogen hypoxia before last year’s deadline last year.

    No state has done executions by nitrogen hypoxia. Mississippi and Oklahoma have also passed laws for nitrogen executions but have not announced a protocol.

    The attorney general’s office has not released any information about the state’s efforts to develop the nitrogen method of execution.

    The AG’s office has hired an industrial safety expert under a contract related to nitrogen executions but has declined to explain the purpose and declined AL.com's request for a copy of the contract under the state’s public records law.

    Court records describe Taylor’s crimes as methodical and heartless. He fatally shot Sherry Gaston, a salesperson at the car dealership, her husband Bruce Gaston, and Steve Dyas, the co-owner of the dealership. The victims were begging for their lives when Taylor shot them, according to testimony from Taylor’s accomplice, who entered a plea deal.

    Updated at 3:35 p.m. to say the attorney general’s office declined comment and at 3:44 p.m. to say the ADOC declined comment.

    https://www.al.com/news/2019/08/mist...-murderer.html
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    Ugh. This law strikes again. Please tell me Hammonds and Waldrop didn't choose nitrogen.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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