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Alabama set to execute Christopher Price in April

Christopher Price
A man convicted of killing a minister in Fayette County is set to be executed next month.

The Alabama Supreme Court set an execution date for Christopher Lee Price on Thursday, April 11. 

Price was at the center of a lawsuit in 2014 seeking to block the state from setting an execution date, because of what the inmate called a “prolonged, excruciating and needless pain,” caused by the three-drug lethal injection cocktail.

The next year, the Alabama Attorney General’s Office asked the federal courts to dismiss Price’s lawsuit.

Price, 46, was convicted in the 1991 robbery and slaying of Bill Lynn. 

Lynn, a minister at Natural Springs Church of Christ, was fatally stabbed outside his home in the Bazemore community three days before Christmas. 

Court records state Lynn was putting together Christmas presents for his grandchildren, when the power went out. He walked outside to check the power box when he was attacked.

His wife, Bessie Lynn, was wounded.

Lynn died en route to a local hospital. 

Price was arrested in Tennessee several days later, and was convicted in 1993. 

Jurors sentenced Price to death by a vote of 10-2 and the trial judge upheld their recommendation.

Price’s execution date is the second set in 2019, following the execution of Domineque Ray in February. 

Ray was convicted of killing a teenage girl in Selma in 1995, and raised a legal battle shortly before his death regarding the issue of having his Muslim spiritual adviser, or imam, inside the execution chamber. 

The AG’s Office and courts denied Ray’s request, and he was executed by lethal injection without his imam or the Christian prison chaplain at his side.

Source: al.com, Ivana Hrynkiw, March 11, 2019


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