USA - Alabama. Judge David Kimberley sentenced Kevin Andre Towles to death.

Etowah County Circuit Judge David Kimberley sentenced Kevin Andre Towles to death. It is the second time Towles gets the death penalty in the December 2006 murder of Geontae Glass, his five-year-old son that he had with his girlfriend Shalinda Glass. Towles was sentenced to die on December 18, 2009 (see). On March 30, 2013 the Alabama's court of criminal appeals overturned 7-0 Towles' conviction of capital murder and his death sentence. The court ruled the judge's instructions to the jury about a particular piece of testimony was an error, and reversed the conviction and sentence. Shalinda Glass, 34, Black, the mother of the boy, pleaded guilty in 2012 to a charge of felony murder in her son's death and was given a life sentence. She said she took responsibility for her role in Geontae's death - failing to protect him from Towles and participating in an attempted cover-up. A new jury on Dec. 4, 2015 (see) unanimously recommended the death penalty for Towles.