McGriff v. State

LONG, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Dennis Demetrius McGriff, was convicted of murdering Michael McCree by shooting McCree while McGriff was in a motor vehicle, a violation of § 13A-5-40(a)(18), Ala.Code 1975. The jury found, as the only aggravating circumstance, that McGriff had “knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons” and recommended, by a vote of 10 to 2, that McGriff be sentenced to death. The trial court accepted the jury’s recommendation and sentenced McGriff to death by electrocution.

The State’s evidence tended to show the following. On October 22, 1996, as McGriff,…