BREAKING: Alabama executes inmate convicted of helping a friend kill four people more than 20 years ago over a dispute about a truck.
FILE - This photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Michael Brandon Samra. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey refused a reprieve for Samra, an inmate set for execution Thursday, May 16, 2019, night for a quadruple killing that occurred after a dispute over a pickup truck, the prisoner's lawyer said.
Samra and a friend, Mark Duke, were convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Duke’s father, the father’s girlfriend and the woman’s two elementary-age daughters in 1997. The two adults were shot and the children had their throats slit. Evidence showed that Duke planned the killings because he was angry his father wouldn’t let him use his pickup.“I would like to thank Jesus for everything he has done for me,” Samra said as he lay strapped on a gurney with his arms extended.
Dunn also released a statement from the families of the victims, who thanked law enforcement and the community for support.Seven relatives of the victims had planned to witness the lethal injection, prison spokesman Bob Horton said, but none of Samra’s family wanted to attend. The inmate had a final phone call with his father on Wednesday, he said. The execution came hours after Samra met with friends and a spiritual adviser.denial of clemency from Gov.
Samra was 19 at the time and asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay his execution while the Kentucky Supreme Court considers whether anyone younger than 21 at the time of a crime should be put to death, butSamra’s request for a gubernatorial reprieve was based on similar grounds. In a letter to the governor seeking mercy for the inmate, Samra’s lawyer had said his client confessed to the slayings, expressed remorse and participated only at Mark Duke’s request.
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