'100 Percent Innocent': Alabama Man Nathaniel Woods Set to Be Executed Despite Late Drama

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nathaniel-woods-set-to-be-executed-despite-public-outcry/

Martin Luther King III and Kim Kardashian have rallied behind Nathaniel Woods, who was convicted in the murder of three cops—even though another man says he pulled the trigger.

Pilar Melendez
Reporter
Updated Mar. 05, 2020 9:00PM ET / Published Mar. 05, 2020 3:55PM ET

An Alabama man convicted of fatally shooting three police officers in 2004 is set to be executed on Thursday night—despite pleas for clemency from family members and high-profile activists who say he shouldn’t be put to death since he didn’t pull the trigger.

Nathaniel Woods, 42, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2005 for the June 17, 2004, killing of three Birmingham police officers. Authorities said Woods and his roommate, Kerry Spencer, were dealing crack cocaine from their home when the three officers—Carlos Owen, Harley Chisolm, and Charles Bennett—were murdered while trying to serve an arrest warrant.

Although Spencer admitted he was the actual gunman who shot at the officers several times, prosecutors argued during the 2005 trial that Woods was also responsible for their deaths because he “conspired” with his roommate in the grisly slaying.

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In a late twist on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court entered a temporary stay just before the execution was set to begin at 7 p.m. ET‚ a move fairly common in capital punishment cases while the justices review a last-minute request for clemency by Woods’ legal team.

A little over an hour later, the Supreme Court lifted the stay and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statement declining to intervene—officially ending any final chance for Woods’ execution to be repealed.

“Governor Ivey does not presently intend to exercise her powers of commutation or reprieve in this case,” the statement said.

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[IcyPeas]

1. disgusting and barbaric

how can they do this? How can Kay Ivey sleep at night.

she is staunchly against abortion.... just sayin'

[MFGsunny]

3. Regrettably, she and many others like her are really only pro-fetus.

The very definition of hypocrisy they live by and through never entered those collective skulls.

Pro-life, my a$$.

[MFM008]

4. because they

are hypocritical lying morons that support an accused rapist.

[Goodheart]

2. Woods is Black, Ivey's a white trumpian

I expected nothing different from that wretch.

[redqueen]

5. Why do we still have capital punishment?

How many people, predominantly black, have to be murdered by the state before this ends?

This is heartbreaking.

[redqueen]

6. He's gone. They killed him.

[Dennis Donovan]

8. When you're black, not even your innocence can save you from the institutional racism of the State

[redqueen]

11. He was HANDCUFFED, OUTSIDE when the murders happened.

I can't believe how few people seem to care.

[EndlessWire]

7. I'm against capital punishment.

Condolences to his family.

But, people should understand that if you are part of a situation where you are doing criminal things and your fellow criminals are killing people, you are going to be blamed for it equally.

Maybe this needs to be taught in school? How sad it all is...

[panader0]

9. Two young punks tried to hold up a Sonics here in my small town.

The cops came and shot one of them to death. The other kid was charged with
murder, even though the cops killed him.

[redqueen]

10. Gross. nt

[edhopper]

12. Or maybe that is a barbaric law

And people who had no part in the killing have been executed.

Let's not accept this medieval form of justice.

[Doc_Technical]

13. This story

reminds me of the movie "Let him have it" (1991)