Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Frazier
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided November 17, 1989No. 88-778PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The trial court sentenced Richard Frazier to death by electrocution after a jury had convicted him of three counts of capital murder and had recommended that he "be punished by life imprisonment without parole." The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and the sentence. See Frazier v. State,562 So.2d 543 (Ala.Crim.App. 1989). We granted Frazier's petition for a writ of certiorari, pursuant to Rule 39(c), A.R.App.P. We reverse and remand.
Frazier was found guilty of unlawfully, intentionally, and with malice aforethought killing Jesse and Irene Doughty by shooting them with a gun;…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Estes v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by70 opinions
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