James Walker and Rex Beckworth were sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murder of an elderly woman
According to court documents Walker and Beckworth would break into a home and in the process would murder 87 year old Bessie Lee Thweatt
Walker and Beckworth would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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James Walker and Rex Beckworth are both incarcerated at Holman Prison
James Walker and Rex Beckworth Case
The evidence at trial showed that Rex Allen Beckworth and his younger half brother, James Walker, broke into the house of Bessie Lee Thweatt, an 87–year–old widow who lived alone in a rural area surrounded by farmland. Thweatt was beaten and shot in the head with a .22 caliber rifle. She died as a result of the attack. Among other things, Thweatt’s house was ransacked. There was evidence indicating that Thweatt was known to keep a substantial sum of money at her house.
After his arrest, Beckworth made two statements to law enforcement officials that were tape-recorded and later introduced into evidence in his trial. In those statements, Beckworth admitted that he broke into Thweatt’s house with the intent to steal from her, but he claimed that Walker was the one who beat and shot Thweatt.
The jury convicted Beckworth of capital murder, see § 13A–5–40(a)(4), Ala.Code 1975 (murder made capital because it was committed during a burglary), and he was sentenced to death. Beckworth’s conviction and death sentence were affirmed on direct appeal. Beckworth v. State, 946 So.2d 490 (Ala.Crim.App.2005) (“Beckworth I ”).
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