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The next in line to be executed in Alabama dies of natural causes

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Daniel Siebert in Alabama, who came within a day of being executed on Oct. 24 before being granted a stay by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta pending Baze, died of natural causes Tuesday. Alabama convicted Siebert of five murders and he had confessed to more than a dozen homicides in total nationwide. The family of one of his victims, Beatrice McDougall, noted in a prepared statement: “He lost his life in a more humane way than any of his victims. . . . We are not vindictive nor do we rejoice today.” more here.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).