Ex Parte McGahee

Earl Jerome McGahee was convicted of capital murder in 1986 for the 1985 murders of Connie Brown and Cassandra Lee, both students at George Wallace Junior College in Selma. McGahee entered the Wallace school building during a school day and shot the women to death. For a more complete recitation of the facts surrounding McGahee's conviction, see McGahee v. State,554 So.2d 454 (Ala.Crim.App. 1989). The trial judge overrode the jury's recommendation of life without parole and sentenced McGahee to death.

The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed McGahee's conviction, but reversed his death sentence…