Summary of Offense:
Convicted and sentenced to death on October 18, 2007 for a Thanksgiving Day 2005 triple murder at a motel near Birmingham's airport. The dead included the motel clerk, Kim Olney, 28, and two motel guests, John Aylesworth, 42, and Dorothy Smith, 58. Byrd blamed the shootings on his co-defendant, Brandon Deon Mitchell, who was also sentenced to death for the killings.
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