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    Michael Anthony Sockwell - Alabama Death Row




    Summary of Facts:

    Louise Harris approached her lover, Lorenzo "Bo Bo" McCarter, with a proposition that led to an agreement to kill her husband. Harris and McCarter paid Michael Sockwell and Alex Hood one hundred dollars to carry out the gruesome killing in 1988.

    Sockwell was sentenced to death in 1990.

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    On March 16, 2010, Sockwell's Rule 32 (post-conviction) petition was dismissed by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

    http://www.facebook.com/events/364515407385/

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    On December 12, 2013, Sockwell filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ala...3cv00913/52357

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    Habeas petition denied by the federal district court 9/29/23.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...0913/52357/50/
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