MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – The sister of an executed inmate, whose case drew national scrutiny because he was not the gunman, confronted Alabama’s governor on Thursday for not stopping the lethal injection.
The sister of Nathaniel Woods approached Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey as she spoke with reporters about the U.S. Census, WSFA reported. Woods was put to death March 5 by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court and the governor both declined to intervene.
“You killed my brother. Governor Ivey, you killed my brother,” Pamela Woods told Ivey after approaching her at a news conference at the Alabama Capitol.
FILE – In this Oct. 10, 2005, file photo, Nathaniel Woods watches as the jury enters the courtroom during his murder trial in Birmingham, Ala. Martin Luther King, III, the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as family members of Woods, a condemned Alabama inmate, are asking the governor to to stop his execution. Woods is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, March 5, 2020. Woods and co-defendant Kerry Spencer were convicted of capital murder for the 2004 killings of three Birmingham police officers. Spencer was also sentenced to death for the killings. (Mark Almond/The Birmingham News via AP, File)The governor was then quickly escorted away by her security officer.
Woods was convicted of capital murder in the 2004 slayings of three Birmingham police officers. Authorities acknowledged he was not the triggerman in the slayings, but prosecutors maintained he was a culpable accomplice.