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    Kenneth Eugene Smith - Alabama Execution - January 25, 2024


    Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett



    Kenneth Smith’s death row mugshot


    Kenneth Smith and his spiritual advisor on January 22, 2024


    Summary of Offense:

    In 1988, John Forrest Parker and Kenneth Eugene Smith were recruited by another man for $1,000 each on behalf of the Rev. Charles Sennett in Colbert County to kill Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett. She was beaten and repeatedly stabbed.

    Smith was sentenced to death in 1990.

    His codefendant John Forrest Parker was executed by Alabama on June 10, 2010.

    Forrest's thread can be found by clicking the statement above. Charles Sennet the employer of the murder committed suicide in 1988 shortly after the investigation started to target him.

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    An Alabama appeals court has upheld the convictions of two death row inmates and told lower courts to review claims made by two other death row prisoners.

    In a decision rendered today, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals rejected Mark Allen Jenkins' claim of juror misconduct in his trial. Jenkins said one of the jurors should have disclosed that her nephew and his wife had been murdered 20 years earlier. The appeals court said Jenkins waited too long to raise the issue.

    Jenkins was convicted of the strangulation death of Birmingham waitress Tammy Hogeland, whose body was found in St. Clair County in April 1989.

    The appeals court also upheld the death sentence of Health Lavon McCray. He was convicted of killing Brandy Jean Bachelder in August 2005 after she told him to move out of her mobile home in Dothan.

    The court sent the conviction of Demetrius Avery Jackson Jr. back to a Jefferson County judge to review Jackson's complaint that blacks were unfairly excluded from his jury. Jackson was convicted in 2006 of killing Fairfield police officer Mary Smith.

    The appeals court also told a Jefferson County judge to take another look at claims by Kenneth Eugene Smith that there were problems with his trial. Smith was convicted of the murder-for-hire slaying of a minister's wife, Elizabeth Sennett, in Colbert County in March 1988.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    On March 3, 2015, Smith filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ala...cv00384/154492

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    On September 12, 2019, Smith's habeas petition was DENIED by Judge Kallon (Obama).

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...0384/154492/50

    On November 14, 2019, Smith filed an appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci.../ca11/19-14543

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    COA granted in part and denied in part on January 9, 2020.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci.../ca11/19-14543
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    On November 17, 2020, oral argument will be heard in Smith's appeal before the Eleventh Circuit.

    https://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/sites/...P%29_Smith.pdf

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

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...021-04-06.html
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    The panel was made up of Judges Wilson (Clinton), Jill Pryor (Obama) and Grant (Trump).

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    En banc rehearing denied May 19, 2021.

    Final petition for writ of certiorari filed October 18, 2021.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....ic/21-579.html
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    Final appeal distributed for conference February 18, 2022.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....ic/21-579.html
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