Judge Upholds Man’s Capital Murder Conviction; Denies Appeal
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the conviction of a man on death row for a killing in Dallas County.
The judges let stand a lower court decision that affirmed Matthew Reeves’ conviction in the shotgun killing of Willie Johnson in 1996.
Reeves appealed claiming his lawyer was ineffective during his trial and that he is intellectually disabled. But the appellate court rejected those arguments, and also his claims that Alabama’s method of lethal injection is unconstitutional.
The court’s decision says evidence indicated that Reeves killed Johnson inside a pickup truck during a robbery. He was convicted in 1998.
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