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Jury Votes for Death Penalty in Triple Slaying
Friday, 27 January 2012 11:59

Jurors voted unanimously this week to recommend the death penalty for a Dothan man convicted of killing three people at a crack house in 1996.

The Dothan Eagle reports that 40-year-old Jerry Jerome Smith had previously been convicted of capital murder in the killings and sentenced to death, but his death sentence was overturned twice.

His case was in court this week for resentencing, and the jury on Thursday recommended the death penalty.

He's convicted of killing 40-year-old Willie James Flournoy of Dothan; 26-year-old Theresa Ann Helms of Wicksburg and 29-year-old David Lee Bennett of Midland City.

The three victims were killed at a Sturgeon Court residence on Oct. 19, 1996.

Police described it as a crack house.

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