Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Borden
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided February 4, 2000No. 1972037PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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James Henry Borden, Jr., was convicted of murder made capital because he had been convicted of another murder within the 20 years preceding this offense, see § 13A-5-40(a)(13), Ala. Code 1975. The jury, by a vote of 10-2, recommended that he be sentenced to death. The trial court accepted this recommendation and sentenced Borden to death by electrocution. On appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeals held that the trial court's written sentencing order was deficient…
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