His appeal includes (see link below):
The State's evidence tended to show that on May 8, 1998, Calhoun entered L.P.'s and Tracy Phillips's home in Talladega and shot and killed Tracy Phillips. L.P. testified that on the evening of May 8 her neighbor telephoned her to tell her that there was a man looking in the windows of her house. L.P. told her husband, Tracy, and Tracy went to check outside. When Tracy returned to the house Calhoun, who was wearing a stocking mask over his face, was following behind him with a gun. L.P. said that she knew that the man in the mask was Calhoun because he had been to their house that day and she had also seen him when she had been posting signs earlier that day for a yard sale she was having. L.P. said that she ran upstairs to one of the bedrooms to hide her daughter and her daughter's friend and locked the bedroom door behind her. Moments later, she said, Tracy yelled from behind the door that Calhoun had a gun to his head and that if she did not open the door Calhoun would kill him. She complied and Calhoun entered the bedroom. Tracy pleaded for their lives and offered him money and jewelry. Calhoun declined and told L.P. to take off her clothes, get on the bed, and spread her legs. L.P. complied. Calhoun pushed Tracy's head between his wife's legs, held the gun to the back of Tracy's head, and pulled the trigger. The coroner testified that Tracy died of a gunshot wound to the back of his head, which severed his brain stem.
After shooting Tracy, Calhoun dragged L.P. downstairs, where he raped, sodomized, and beat her. She said that at one point she struggled with Calhoun for the gun, he became enraged, and he pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger, but the gun did not fire. Calhoun then raped her again and told her to get any money that she had upstairs. She refused to go back upstairs because her husband's body was there, but she told Calhoun that she had jewelry in a downstairs bathroom. L.P. gave him some jewelry, he threw some of it down, and he left. L.P. then telephoned emergency 911.
His victim was Tracy Phillips.
You can write to John Russell Calhoun at:
John Russell Calhoun 0000z673
Donaldson Death Row
100 Warrior Lane
Bessemer, AL 35023-7299
You can email John using Jpay - you will need to select Alabama and use the ID 0000z673
100 Warrior Lane
Bessemer, AL 35023-7299
You can email John using Jpay - you will need to select Alabama and use the ID 0000z673
Poster child for the death penalty. After reading the description of his crimes, I cannot image the victim's wife ever recovering emotionally. But, that is just me. She should have the option of telling him the what she thinks of him as he is strapped to the execution table and injected.
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