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    Donald Broadnax - Alabama Death Row




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    Was sentenced to death on September 19, 1997 for the April 25, 1996 murders of his wife, Hector Jan Stamps Broadnax, and her four-year-old grandson, DeAngelo Stamps.

    According to evidence in the case, Broadnax bludgeoned his wife to death, put her body in the trunk of her car and drove to Birmingham with DeAngelo. He then killed the boy and put his body in the trunk.
    One employee testified that Broadnax had complained that his wife wasn't doing enough to get him paroled from the 99-year sentence he was serving for a 1977 Birmingham murder.

    http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/06/...ates_peti.html

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    Appeals court upholds Alabama inmate's death sentence

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama appeals court has confirmed the capital murder conviction and death sentence given to Donald Broadnax for the deaths of his wife and her grandson in 1996.

    The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Friday rejected the 50-year-old man's arguments to have his conviction and sentence overturned. Broadnax claimed that his attorneys were ineffective.

    Broadnax, who was 35 at the time of the slayings, was found guilty in the deaths of Hector Jan Stamps, 42, and her grandson DeAngelo.

    Prosecutors say Broadnax beat them to death with a plank during an argument after he left a prison work-release program in Alexander City.

    http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/ne...#ixzz2F7mso2Ao

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    Alabama death row inmate's petition to review case declined in 1997 slaying of wife, her 4-year-old grandson

    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - The Alabama Supreme Court this week declined to hear an appeal in the capital murder case of death row inmate Donald Broadnax, who was convicted in 1997 of killing his wife and her 4-year-old grandson.

    Broadnax, now 52, was 35 at the time of the April 1996 slayings of 42-year-old Hector Jan Stamps Broadnax and 4-year-old DeAngelo Stamps.

    Prosecutors said the two were killed after Broadnax and his wife argued when she and DeAngelo visited him at the Alexander City cabinet-making plant where he worked on a prison work-release program.

    In a decision released today, the Supreme Court declined a petition submitted by attorneys John Mays and Richard Jaffe, who are representing Broadnax for no fee.

    In December, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals confirmed Broadnax's conviction and death sentence, rejecting his arguments that his attorneys were ineffective.

    "Ever since Mr. Jaffe and I have had this case, we wish that we had been the lawyers that tried it," Mays said. "When you pick up a post-conviction writ, you are stuck with a lot of things the defendant's first lawyer did that maybe you wouldn't have done."

    According to evidence in the case, Broadnax bludgeoned his wife to death, put her body in the trunk of her car and drove to Birmingham with DeAngelo. He then killed the boy and put his body in the trunk.

    One employee testified that Broadnax had complained that his wife wasn't doing enough to get him paroled from the 99-year sentence he was serving for a 1977 Birmingham murder.

    In June 1997, a Jefferson County jury took less than 30 minutes to unanimously recommend Broadnax be sentenced to death. Since then, he has remained on death row at Donaldson Correctional Facility.

    In the intervening years, Broadnax and his attorneys have filed various appeals in state and federal courts. Mays said they now plan to pursue the case as a federal habeas corpus, which will be filed in the next month.

    In a capital murder case, a writ of habeas corpus is the appeal of a state conviction in federal court. A review of the case is sought to determine if a defendant's constitutional rights were violated in the conviction or sentencing.

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    On June 17, 2013, Broadnax filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ala...v01142/148246/

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    On December 13, 2019, Broadnax's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...1142/148246/20
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    On March 30, 2021, oral argument will be heard in Broadnax's appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

    https://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/sites/...9_Broadnax.pdf

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    The Eleventh Circuit has denied Broadnax’s appeal and affirmed the district court’s denial of his habeas petition.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...021-05-07.html
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    The panel was made up of Judges Wilson (Clinton), Martin (Obama) and Jill Pryor (Obama).

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    En banc rehearing denied June 9, 2021.

    Final petition for writ of certiorari filed November 8, 2021.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search....c\21-6238.html
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    Final appeal distributed for conference March 18, 2022.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/21-6238.html
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