Phillip Hallford was executed by the State of Alabama for the murder of Charles Shannon
According to court documents Phillip Hallford had been molesting his daughter for years. When the teenager started to date Charles Shannon Hallford would become enraged.
Hallford would take sixteen year old Charles Shannon to a remote location where he would be fatally shot
Phillip Hallford would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Phillip Hallford would be executed by lethal injection on November 4 2010
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Phillip Hallford was executed on November 4 2010
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Phillip Hallford, 63, who was convicted of killing his daughter’s 16-year-old boyfriend was executed this evening.
He was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. at Holman Prison. When asked if he had any final words, he said, “No.” Hallford spoke softly to the chaplain and guards for a few minutes as the lethal injection was administered, and then quietly slipped away.
Hallford lost a bid for a stay of execution by the Alabama Supreme Court just hours before he was to die by lethal injection at Holman Prison for the shooting death of Eddie Shannon at a rural south Alabama bridge. Gov. Bob Riley also refused to grant clemency. Hallford’s attorney filed a final motion for a stay with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Melinda Hallford Powell, who was 15 and pregnant at the time of the killing, said her father forced her to lure Shannon to the rural site in Dale County, where he shot him to death and threw the body off a nearby bridge. Then, she said, her father made a necklace with the casings from the bullets and forced her to wear it.
Powell, who now lives in North Carolina and is married with three children, said she had been sexually abused by her father and had lived “a nightmare” for years. “You can’t imagine what it was like. I was kind of a zombie after that,” Powell told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday night. The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sexual abuse, but Powell said her account of the abuse is in court records and she had no objections.
According to trial testimony, Hallford was angry that his daughter was dating Shannon and, before dumping the body from the bridge, Hallford took the boy’s wallet.
Hallford spent his final hours Thursday visiting with his mother, Mertie Boyett, and other relatives. He did not request a final meal, but instead had cheese crackers, nacho cheese Bugles, a ham-and-cheese sandwich and a Dr Pepper from vending machines. Hallford gave his only posessions, including a watch and a Bible, to his mother.
Shannon’s stepmother, Angelita Johns, said in a statement that Hallford’s execution “is long overdue.” “What Phillip Hallford did to my stepson Eddie Shannon was unforgivable,” Johns said. “Eddie Shannon was an innocent 16-year-old just beginning to live his life.”
Alabama prison system officials said they had an adequate stock of sodium thiopental, a drug used in lethal injections that has been in short supply nationally. The shortage prompted some states to delay executions or go overseas to find the drug, which makes an inmate unconscious before other drugs cause paralysis and stop the heart.
http://blog.al.com/wire/2010/11/alabama_death_row_inmate_phill.html
