A Georgia man convicted by a Tallapoosa County jury on four counts of capital murder in the 2020 killings of a Dadeville couple learned his fate Thursday afternoon.
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The jury has since returned to a judge with a 10-2 recommendation that Hightower receive the death penalty, according to Segrest.. Court records state the couple was murdered while the defendant trying to steal two firearms and prescription drugs during a home invasion., of Birmingham, was also indicted on the same charges. She has not yet gone to trial in the Dadeville case, and is being held in the Lee County Jail without bond.
Following the guilty plea, arrangements were made to transport Hightower to Lee County to face the charges connected to the murder of Nash. He was booked into the Lee County Jail in
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