An Alabama district attorney on Monday asked a judge to order a new trial for a death row inmate.
This photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections in September 2022 shows Toforest Johnson. He has spent half his life on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a sheriff’s deputy, a killing he says he did not commit.An Alabama district attorney on Monday asked a judge to order a new trial for a death row inmate, saying that a review found that the 1998 conviction was flawed and “cannot be justified or allowed to stand.
Johnson has been on Alabama’s death row since 1998 after he was convicted in the 1995 killing of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff William Hardy, who was shot twice in the head while working off-duty security at a hotel. However, Carr, who was elected as the county's district attorney in 2018, wrote that the “evidence in this case has unraveled over 20 years.”
“The lead prosecutor now has such grave concerns about account that he supports a new trial for Johnson,” Carr wrote of the prosecutor who led the case in the 1990s.
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