Alabama Court in the United States has sentenced 83-year-old Walter Moody, an American to death earlier convicted of 71 charges in 1991 for killing the federal appeals judge, Robert Vance and civil rights lawyer, Robert Robinson in 1989.
Moody has maintained his innocence.
According to the Death Penalty Information Centre, a group that specialises in tracking capital punishment, Moody will be the oldest inmate killed in the modern history of the US.
It is gathered that his appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States was rejected and he is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court again Thursday.
Initially, the killings were thought to be triggered by the difference in race, since the two victims were African-Americans.
A local media later alleged that Moody was not happy at a court system over a 1972 conviction for another bombing incident that injured his then-wife.
Bob Vance, son of the murdered judge who is also a judge himself, said there “wasn’t any real good reason” for Moody’s targeting of his father.
Vance Family said they would not attend the execution.
Bob told local media he got “closure” when Moody was convicted in 1991, realising he “would never be in the position to hurt anyone else.
“The execution coming up does not add anything to that,” Bob Vance said.
(Naijanews)
