Ulysses Charles Sneed And John Hardy were sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murder of Clarence Terry
According to court documents Ulysses Charles Sneed and John Hardy would rob a store and in the process would murder Clarence Terry
Ulysses Charles Sneed and John Hardy would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
John Hardy would die on Alabama death row in 2015
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Where Is Ulysses Charles Sneed Now
Ulysses Charles Sneed is incarcerated at Holman Prison
When Did John Hardy Die
John Hardy died in June 2015
Ulysses Charles Sneed Case
The record indicates the following facts.2 On August 29, 1993, Sneed and Chris Hines drove from Louisville, Kentucky, to Alabama. The two men came to Alabama to look for jobs. Sneed stayed with Hines and Hardy, who is Hines’s cousin. In the early morning hours of September 7, 1993, Sneed and Hardy borrowed Hines’s automobile and went to buy beer; Hardy was driving and Sneed was a passenger. Hardy drove to his house, where he picked up a rifle and put it in the car. He then drove to Bud’s Convenience Store in Decatur. Hardy pulled his shirt sleeves from his shirt, and Hardy and Sneed tied the sleeves around their faces as masks. Sneed opened the door to the convenience store. Hardy stepped into the store and began firing his rifle at Terry, the store clerk. Hardy’s first shot missed Terry, who tried to hide behind the counter. As Hardy fired at Terry, Sneed ran behind the counter toward the cash register. While Sneed attempted to open the cash register, Hardy leaned over the counter and shot Terry in the chest. Hardy then walked around the counter and shot Terry five times in the head and face. While Terry lay dying on the floor, Sneed and Hardy continued their attempt to open the cash register; they were unsuccessful. Sneed and Hardy unplugged the cash register and took it with them as they ran from the store. These events were recorded on the convenience store’s surveillance video camera.
Later that morning, Sneed, Hardy, and Hines went to Hardy’s father’s house, where Sneed and Hardy had left the cash register. Using a sledgehammer, the three men tried to open the register. When the police recovered the cash register, they found Hines’s fingerprint on it. The police showed the surveillance video to several people, including Hines. Four of those people, including Hines, identified Hardy as the shooter and Sneed as the unarmed man.
In his statement to police, Sneed admitted that he had participated in the robbery, but stated that he did not intend for anyone to get hurt. The indictment against Sneed alleged that he had committed the capital offense of murder during the course of a first-degree robbery, in violation of § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala.Code 1975. At his arraignment, Sneed pleaded not guilty.3 At trial, Sneed’s defense was that, although he had participated in the robbery, he was not the gunman and he did not intend that anyone be killed.
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