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    Geoffrey Todd West - Alabama Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    West and his girlfriend were convicted in 1999 of shooting a convenience store clerk to death during a robbery in 1997.

    “In the late hours of March 27, 1997, or early morning of March 28, 1997, Geoffrey Todd West and his girlfriend drove to Harold's Chevron located at 2920 Noccalula Parkway. The Defendant had previously been employed at this convenience store. The Defendant previously had expressed to others his intention to rob the Chevron Store and to ‘leave no witnesses,’ ‘kill the person up there.’

    “West entered the store armed with a .45 caliber handgun and the circumstances indicate that he held the attendant Berry at gunpoint and took $250.00 from a cookie can where the store money was kept. The medical evidence indicates that Berry was shot in the back of the head while lying prone on the floor behind the counter of the store. According to the medical examiner, the ‘wound would cause rapid incapacitation and a very rapid death.’ ”

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    August 16, 2008

    Court nixes motions to review four Alabama death penalty cases

    The Alabama Supreme Court has turned back motions to review four Alabama death penalty cases, including the appeal of Westley Devone Harris, convicted of killing six members of a Crenshaw County family.

    The court on Friday also refused to hear the appeals of death row inmates Vernon Madison, Geoffrey Todd West and Ulysses Charles Sneed. The court issued no written opinions.

    All four condemned men have further appeals available.

    Harris was sentenced to die for the 2002 murders of six members of his girlfriend's family at their farm in Rutledge.

    Madison was convicted in the 1985 murder of a Mobile police officer. West was sentenced to die for the killing of an Etowah County store clerk in 1997. And Sneed received a death sentence for the killing of a store clerk in Decatur in 1993.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    On August 29, 2008, West filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ala...v01576/124124/

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    Oral arguments are scheduled for the 19th of June.

    http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/calenda...CAL_-_West.pdf

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    Why can't all antis be as helpful as JLR?
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    GEOFFREY TODD WEST v COMMISSIONER,
    ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS


    In today's Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals opinions, the court AFFIRMED the district court's DENIAL of West's petition for Section 2254 relief claiming ineffective assistance on counsel.
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    On September 11, 2012, the Eleventh Circuit denied West's petition for a rehearing en banc.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/12-8448.htm

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

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    Case Nos.: (11-12911)
    Decision Date: July 2, 2012
    Rehearing Denied: September 11, 2012

    Denial could result in an execution.
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    Alabama death row inmates elect alternate method of execution, drop lethal injection suit

    By Ivana Hrynkiw
    AL.com

    The attorney for several Alabama death row inmates and the Alabama Attorney General's Office have asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state's lethal injection method because the inmates want to be executed a different way.

    Court records show John Palombi, a federal public defender for the Middle District of Alabama, and Deputy AG Thomas Govan filed a motion to dismiss the case on Tuesday because the inmates named in the lawsuit have elected a new form of execution, which was made legal last month. Because they've now opted to die by nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection, their claims in the lawsuit are moot.

    The case was originally filed in 2012 by multiple death row inmates, including several who have been executed since that time. The case focused on what the inmates said were challenges to the constitutionality of Alabama's current three-drug method of execution, which includes the sedative midazolam.

    According to the joint motion, Gov. Kay Ivey signed into state law on March 22 a bill that approved nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. Under the amended law, lethal injection will remain the primary method of capital punishment, but inmates sentenced to die will be provided an opportunity to choose nitrogen hypoxia instead.

    Inmates who were already on death row had the option to pick the nitrogen method and notify the Department of Corrections of their choice by June 30.

    The motion shows each surviving plaintiff in the suit-- Carey Dale Grayson, Demetrius Frazier, David Lee Roberts, Robin Dion Myers, Gregory Hunt, Geoffrey Todd West, Charles Lee Burton, and David Wilson-- chose the method of nitrogen hypoxia and alerted the DOC last month.

    The Federal Defender's office released a statement Tuesday afternoon: "These plaintiffs pled nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative method of execution, and the state's adoption of nitrogen hypoxia as an authorized method rendered the suit moot. The plaintiffs in this case, and anyone else who elected the new method, cannot now be executed by lethal injection...While the best way to reduce the risks of botched executions would be to abolish the death penalty, if the death penalty does exist, it must be carried out in a constitutional manner with the respect and dignity that is required of such a solemn event. We urge the Department [of Corrections] to make any new execution protocol public, as virtually all other death penalty states do, so that the people of the state of Alabama know what is being done in their name."

    The office also said the inmates in the lawsuit have not waived the right to challenge the details of nitrogen hypoxia in the future, and they should be able to do so "to ensure that Alabama carries out this method in a humane manner."

    The AG's office has not returned AL.com's request for comment.

    https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/i...ates_elec.html

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