On Jan. 18, 2012 the United States Supreme Court ordered a new hearing in Cory Maples’ death penalty case after his volunteer attorneys from the prestigious New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell failed to file a notice of appeal from an Alabama judge’s order in his case.
As a result of that failure, the state of Alabama was prepared to execute Cory Maples. Maples had been convicted in 1997 of two counts of capital murder. At his trial he was found guilty by a Morgan County, Ala., Circuit Court jury of the execution-style murder of Stacy Alan Terry and Barry Robinson. Both young men were shot twice in the head, and Terry’s 1995 Camaro with a distinctive personalized tag with the word “Twink” was missing. Maples, in addition to the murders taking place near his mobile home, was later connected to the murders by witnesses and other physical evidence.
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