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This beautiful woman is former U.S. Marine Suzanne Marie Collins. She was stationed here in the Memphis area on the base in Millington, just north of Memphis. She was murdered in a particularly horrific way by a waste of space named Sedley Alley while out jogging on the base one night.
This is Sedley Alley.
Sedley Alley lived on the base with his wife, but was not in the military and was currently unemployed. Alley's wife had just left him after getting into a fight. He drank two six-packs and a bottle of wine. He told authorities that he had gone out for more liquor when his car accidentally hit 19-year-old Suzanne Collins as she jogged near the Millington Naval Base. Alley's story is that he accidentally killed the young woman -- who was due to graduate from aviation school the next day. However, an autopsy revealed that her skull had been fractured with a screwdriver. Before she died, a tree limb was rammed into her vagina so hard that it entered her abdomen and lacerated one of her lungs. A witness stated that even though he was far away and did not see the impaling, he heard Suzanne's scream of agony very clearly. He testified that it was the most horrible scream he had ever heard in his life.
Alley tried to convince a jury that he had multiple personality disorder. He was scheduled to die by electrocution May 2, 1990, but was reprieved indefinitely by the state Court of Criminal Appeals. Judge Penny White made that decision, and she paid for it with her career. She was ousted from the bench during a fierce political campaign that portrayed her as soft on crime.
A judge Thursday rejected the appeal of death row inmate Sedley Alley, saying there is reason to believe he concocted his psychotic multiple personality defense to explain his actions. Criminal Court Judge L. T. Lafferty also said in his 46-page opinion that Alley's defense attorneys were competent and well-prepared in his 1987 trial.
The court file on convicted murderer Sedley Alley consists of 50 volumes that stretch nearly 10 feet in length. After a jury found him guilty in 1987, the state Supreme Court reviewed the trial and in 1989 declared: ''Defendant's guilt in this case was established at the level of absolute certainty.'' Six years later, however, the case described by prosecutors as ''one of the most senseless and gruesome in Shelby County history'' is about to grow again.
The father of a Millington Marine raped and killed in 1985 decried on Tuesday an appeals system that keeps her killer alive. But former Tennessee attorney general William Leech told the Senate Judiciary Committee federal court review of death sentences needs to continue.
John A. Collins, father of Suzanne Marie Collins, was among witnesses testifying in support of a Bush administration bill that would block federal courts from reviewing issues raised by prisoners in state courts.
Sedley Alley, who was sentenced to death 10 years ago for the murder of a 19-year-old Marine at the Millington Naval Station, was denied a new appeal Monday by the Tennessee Supreme Court. Alley, 41, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1987 for the 1985 slaying of Lance Corporal Suzanne Marie Collins, the daughter of a U.S. diplomat who wanted to be the first female Marine to fly jets. She was attacked while she was jogging near the Navy base.
NASHVILLE (AP) -- The state Supreme Court has set a May 17 execution date for convicted killer Sedley Alley.
Alley was sentenced to die for the 1985 rape and murder of 19-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne M. Collins at the Millington Naval Air Station outside Memphis.
A year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Alley's case, exhausting his appeals on the three-tiered court review process.
Collins was kidnapped while jogging, beaten, stabbed in the head with a screwdriver and sexually assaulted with a tree limb. Alley gave police a confession but now says his statement was coerced.
Sedley Alley Executed Despite Appeals
NASHVILLE, Tennessee - The state moved on Wednesday to speed up the possible execution of Paul Dennis Reid.
The state is seeking to lift a stay of execution, and took the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court late in the afternoon after hearing nothing from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
After the state moved on, the appeals court said it will -not- have a decision Wednesday night on vacating the stay.
Reid's execution order is valid until midnight.
News media witnesses have been at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville since noon Wednesday and were ordered to stay there until the execution happens or the order expires.
Witnesses from the families of Reid's seven victims were in contact with prison officials. Reid visited today with his three sisters and a brother-in-law.
State officials had planned back-to-back executions Wednesay morning of Reid and Sedley Alley.
Alley was put to death shortly after 2 a.m, after telling his son and his daughter that he loved them and urging them to "stay strong."
Alley exhaled twice after the drugs started flowing, but had no other reaction.
He was convicted in the 1985 murder of 19-year-old Suzanne Collins, a Marine at the Millington Naval Air Station, just north of Memphis.
Reid was convicted of killing seven fast-food restaurant workers during three robberies in Nashville and Clarksville.
A federal judge in Nashville granted him a stay on Tuesday so a hearing could be held to determine if he is mentally competent to abandon his appeals.
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