Legal Opinion
Loggins v. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 7, 2011No. 09-13267PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Kenneth Loggins was convicted and sentenced to death in 1995 for the sadistic and brutal murder of Vickie Deblieux. Because he was seventeen years old when he committed the murder, the state courts eventually set aside his death sentence based on Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 125 S.Ct. 1183, 161 L.Ed.2d 1 (2005), which held that it was unconstitutional to execute anyone who was under eighteen years of age at the time of the crime, id. at 578-79, 125 S.Ct. at 1200. See Loggins v. State, No. CR-04-1567 (Ala.Crim.App. Dec. 8, 2005) (order remanding to trial court for…
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