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William Kuenzel's lawyers filed a motion for a stay of
execution Tuesday and Alabama’s attorney general didn't oppose the motion.
Kuenzel, is on Alabama’s death row for the 1987 murder of
Linda Jean Offord, a Sylcacauga convenience store clerk. Last year, the Alabama
Supreme Court scheduled him for execution by lethal injection March 19, but a
state appeals court later agreed to consider his case in a hearing in early
April, more than two weeks after the scheduled execution.
Mike Lewis, spokesman for the attorney general's office,
confirmed that the state was not opposing the motion.
Kuenzel has long maintained his innocence, saying he wasn't
in the convenience store at the time of the shooting. No fingerprint or blood
evidence connected Kuenzel to the crime, but a co-defendant, who testified in
exchange for a lesser sentence, identified Kuenzel as the assailant.
In addition to his capital murder conviction, Kuenzel also
pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe a witness to provide him with an alibi in
the case.
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