Martin Luther King III released an open letter to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, asking her to intervene in the Nathaniel Woods case.
Woods is scheduled on Thursday to become the latest Alabama Department of Corrections inmateHe can't do much from his cell on death row, where he remains 23 hours a day, except think about what may come to pass.
Standing at the doors of the Capitol Wednesday afternoon, his sister, Pamela Woods, pleaded for a reprieve.Woods was convicted of capital murder in the shooting deaths of three Birmingham police officers in June 2004. Woods was convicted, despite personally killing no one, as an accomplice to the actual shooter.
At trial, prosecutors successfully argued Woods"conspired" with the shooter, Kerry Spencer, in killing the officers and was therefore equally culpable in their deaths. Spencer last month told the news outlet The Appeal that Woods was not involved and there"was no plan to kill the police."By all accounts, Woods did not have a gun at the time of the shooting. His sister asserted that he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
According to court documents, Spencer admitted that he opened fire in a"knee-jerk reaction" when he saw one of the officers holding a gun. Spencer was also convicted and sentenced to death in the killings. His execution date has not yet been set.Martin Luther King III released the letter on social media channels Tuesday, writing he had attempted to speak to Ivey privately but had been denied.
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