Prosecutors are pondering whether to pursue execution in the murder case of 18-year-old Jakayla Williams, the Dothan woman who tossed her newborn into a trash compactor but for an up-and-coming district attorney the decision won’t be an easy one.
“It’s something that we have not even discussed,” Houston County’s Russ Goodman said after Jakayla Williams’ arrest on Thursday. “That will be a decision that is made down the road.”
He had not seen Williams’ in which police say she confessed that two hours after giving birth in her home, she threw the child into the compactor that got hauled to the Dothan landfill, where police recovered the infant’s body. Since then, laws have changed, and currently, jurors set punishment, with 10 of 12 required to impose the death penalty.In April, jurors in Dale County voted overwhelmingly against the execution of convicted killer Coley McCraney, who fatally two teens in one of Alabama’s most notorious cases.While nothing forbids executing someone for the crimes they committed at 18, it seems logical to conclude that jurors would be reluctant to impose that penalty on a person so young.
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