Ex parte State of Alabama.

BOLIN, Justice.

Kevin Andre Towles was convicted of capital murder for killing his son, Geontae Glass, who was under the age of 14 when he was killed. See § 13A-5-40(a)(15), Ala. Code 1975. By a vote of 11 to 1, the jury recommended that Towles be sentenced to death. The trial court followed the jury’s recommendation and sentenced Towles to death. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Towles’s conviction and sentence in a per curiam opinion. Towles v. State, 168 So.3d 124 (Ala.Crim.App.2013). The State petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari, which we granted.

Facts and Procedural…