Ex Parte Wesley

After a jury had convicted Ronald Harvey Wesley of capital murder and recommended that he be punished by life imprisonment without parole, the trial court sentenced him to death by electrocution. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Wesley's conviction and sentence. See Wesley v. State, 575 So.2d 108 (Ala.Crim.App. 1989). We granted Wesley's petition for a writ of certiorari, pursuant to Rule 39(c), A.R.App.P. We reverse and remand.

Wesley was convicted of the intentional killings of Nikita Jackson and Lorraine Wesley. In support of his defense of legal insanity, Wesley presented the…