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    Oscar Roy Doster - Alabama Death Row




    Summary of Offense:

    Sentenced to death in 2006 for his part in the 2003 murder of Paul LeMaster. During a prison break, Doster and Bobby Phillips killed LeMaster to steal his truck. Phillips was also sentenced to death.

    For more on Phillips, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...bobby+phillips

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    Doster conviction upheld

    The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday upheld Oscar Roy Doster's Covington County Circuit Court capital murder conviction for the 2003 death of Gantt resident Paul LeMaster.

    Doster was convicted of capital murder in 2006 following 2-week trial. The jury recommended a sentence of life without parole, but Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan overrode the jury in a separate sentence hearing and imposed the death penalty. In a 146-page opinion, the appellate court affirmed McKathan's decision almost 4 years after it was handed down.

    The appellate ruling came on the same day that Doster officially was sentenced by a Texas judge to life in prison there for the murder of Dennis Courtney. Earlier this week, 2 days into jury selection for the Texas murder trial, Doster pleaded guilty in exchange for a life sentence. If the case had gone to trial he could have been sentenced to death in Texas, as well.

    Covington County District Attorney Greg Gambril said he fully expects Doster’s local case to be appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court.

    "This was a big first step," Gambril said. "With each step, the burden increases on the defendant."

    (Source: The Andalusia News)

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    Doster Alabama-bound today

    Two-time convicted murderer Oscar Roy Doster is set to return to Alabama today.

    Doster and fellow Covington County escapee James Darran Harnage have faced the Texas judicial system for the April 2005 death of Oakwood, Texas, rancher Dennis Courtney. Both pleaded guilty.

    Harnage was the first to accept a plea deal for the Texas incident. In exchange for agreeing to testify against Doster, Harnage was allowed to plead guilty to aggravated robbery. He was later sentenced to 40 years in prison before the possibility of parole for the crime.

    The Freestone County (Texas) Press reported Harnage was transported back to Alabama under heavy guard on Saturday. He is currently listed on the state Department of Corrections’ Web site as an inmate at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Jefferson County, a maximum-security facility, where he will serve out a life sentence after pleading guilty to the escape from the county jail.

    As for Doster, he will be transported back to Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore today, The Freestone County (Texas) Press reported.

    In “an emotionally-charged sentencing hearing” Friday, Doster did not speak before being sentenced to life in prison – a sentence that is set to run consecutive to the Alabama death penalty he received for the 2003 shooting death of Gantt resident Paul LeMaster.

    On the same day as Doster was officially sentenced in Texas, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld his conviction in the LeMaster death and affirmed Judge Ashley McKathan’s decision to sentence Doster to death, overriding the jury’s recommendation for life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/201...-probably-not/

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Doster's petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis was DENIED.

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    Alabama Supreme Court won't look at cases of three men on death row

    By Ivana Hrynkiw
    al.com

    The Alabama Supreme Court won't review the cases of several men on the state's death row.

    According to its weekly order list issued Friday, the state's highest court has denied writs of certiorari--or requests to review the cases-- to Oscar Doster, James Ben Brownfield, and Nicholas Bernard Acklin.

    Doster was convicted of the 2002 murder of Paul LeMaster in Covington County, which happened while he and three other men were on the run after escaping the county jail. He was arrested, but broke out again and killed a man in Texas in 2005, court records show. He pleaded guilty in the Texas case, and was sentenced to life in prison.

    Brownfield was convicted of killing his sister, brother-in-law and 3-year-old great-nephew on Christmas Eve 2001. His sister, Brenda McCutchin, and her grandson, Joshua Hodges, were beat with a claw hammer in their sleep, and Brownfield's brother-in-law Latham McCutchin was stabbed to death. Police found scrawled messages on the walls of the home, including "Killing is my business" and "It's about to pick up."

    Acklin is on death row for his role in the 1996 Huntsville "cell phone murders." He and two other men, Joey Wilson and Corey Johnson, were convicted in the fatal shootings of four people on Sept. 25, 1996 and the wounding of two others at a home on University Drive. The shootings followed a previous incident where someone in the home had reported to the Madison County Sheriff's Department that Wilson had stolen his cell phone.

    Acklin and Wilson were both convicted and received death sentences while Johnson, who police say did not fire a shot, was released from prison in 2011.

    The state supreme court didn't write opinions on any of the three cases.

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

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    On January 18, 2019, Doster filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/al...9cv00066/68739

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