State v. Flowers

WINDOM, Presiding Judge.

The State of Alabama appeals the circuit court's decision to grant Timothy Flowers penalty-phase relief in his postconviction proceeding pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R. Crim. P., and to reduce Flowers's sentences of death to sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

On direct appeal, this Court summarized the facts of Flowers's crime and the procedural history of his case as follows:

"On November 28, 2000, Ruby Welch and Brenda Owens reported to police that Tommy Philyaw was missing and that they suspected he had been the victim of a crime. They told…