Photo | Of court of appeals and the mugshot of the suspect
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the capital murder conviction and death sentence of Jamal O’Neal Jackson, who was convicted of capital murder for killing his girlfriend while her 4-year-old daughter was inside the same apartment.
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