An appellate court on Thursday ordered a halt to the scheduled execution of an Alabama inmate convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife, but the state is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to proceed with the lethal injection.
of an Alabama inmate convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife, but the state is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to proceed with the lethal injection., 57, after he raised concerns about problems with venous access at the state's last two scheduled lethal injections. The state quickly appealed the order.
Sennett was found dead on March 18, 1988, in the couple's home on Coon Dog Cemetery Road in Alabama's Colbert County. The coroner testified that the 45-year-old woman had been stabbed eight times in the chest and once on each side of the neck. Her husband, Charles Sennett Sr., who was the pastor of the Westside Church of Christ, killed himself one week after his wife's death when the murder investigation started to focus on him as a suspect, according to court documents.
John Forrest Parker, the other man convicted in the slaying, was executed in 2010."I'm sorry. I don't ever expect you to forgive me. I really am sorry," Parker said to the victim's sons before he was put to death.
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