re: Alabama Plans Second “Execution” of Kenny Smith by Experimental Method

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Ronnie May remembers the horrific scene on March 18, 1988, when he responded to a call from Charles Sennett, a Church of Christ pastor in Sheffield.

Sennett claimed he found his wife, Elizabeth Sennett, dead in their home on Coon Dog Cemetery Road in Colbert County. She had been stabbed, and beaten with a fireplace implement, in what investigators would soon conclude was a murder-for-hire paid for by the pastor and staged to look like a home invasion and burglary.

“She fought it and she fought hard,” said May, who was chief investigator with the Colbert County Sheriff’s Office at the time. “It was horrific to me.” “You feel for the victim and what they went through - and the horror she went through in her last minutes,” May said.

And you feel for the family and the range of emotions, including pain and anger, May said of the Sennetts’ two sons. “You see the horror and disbelief in their faces,” said May, who retired in 2015 after 42 years in law enforcement and 16 years as sheriff.

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Kenny beat and stabbed a woman to death for $1,000. I don’t give a frick if they tie him to a tree, cover him in meat sauce and release some pit bulls.

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not only had she been beaten with a galvanized pipe, but she’d also been stabbed multiple times in the chest, neck, face, and scalp.

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Moreover, he was convicted in 1988. There’s no suspicion that we have the wrong guy. We should have put him to death 30 years ago.