Post by CCADP on Aug 18, 2005 18:33:59 GMT -5
Death row inmate John W. Peoples Jr. scheduled for execution
In Montgomery, the Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday set a Sept. 22
execution date for John W. Peoples Jr., who was convicted of the 1983
murders of 3 members of a St. Clair county family.
The bodies of Paul and Judy Franklin and their 10-year-old son, Paul
Franklin Jr., were found in a wooded area in Talladega County a week after
they disappeared from their St. Clair County home. They had died after
being struck in the head with a rifle or other object, according to court
papers.
Prosecutors charged that Peoples killed the Franklins after Paul Franklin
Sr. refused to sell him a red 1968 Corvette.
The state Supreme Court set an execution date for Peoples after he lost 2
rounds of appeals in his capital murder case.
(source: Associated Press)
In Montgomery, the Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday set a Sept. 22
execution date for John W. Peoples Jr., who was convicted of the 1983
murders of 3 members of a St. Clair county family.
The bodies of Paul and Judy Franklin and their 10-year-old son, Paul
Franklin Jr., were found in a wooded area in Talladega County a week after
they disappeared from their St. Clair County home. They had died after
being struck in the head with a rifle or other object, according to court
papers.
Prosecutors charged that Peoples killed the Franklins after Paul Franklin
Sr. refused to sell him a red 1968 Corvette.
The state Supreme Court set an execution date for Peoples after he lost 2
rounds of appeals in his capital murder case.
(source: Associated Press)