McKinnis v. State

KELLUM, Judge.

Kenneth Adam McKinnis was convicted of murder made capital because it was committed during the course of a robbery, a violation of § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala.Code 1975. By a vote of 10-2, the jury recommended that McKinnis be sentenced to death. The trial court followed the jury’s recommendation and sentenced McKinnis to death.

The evidence adduced at trial indicated the following. In the early morning hours *1267of August 19, 2006, Byron Lewis Belser was shot and killed in the Champagne Lounge, a strip club in Dothan (hereinafter “the club”). Dr. Corrine Elizabeth Stern, who in 2006 was a…