Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld his conviction and death sentence in 1999. Battle, a federal prisoner with a history of psychiatric problems, was sentenced to death in March 1997 for the murder of a guard in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Hardy is not under a sentence of death.Īnthony Battle - Black. A federal jury again recommended a sentence of death for Len Davis on August 9, 2005. The court ordered a new sentencing hearing for both defendants. The Fifth Circuit reversed the sentences for both defendants and one of the two capital convictions for each defendant. Hardy was also sentenced to death on two convictions in May 1996. A co-defendant, Paul Hardy, also black, was the triggerman in the killing. Davis, a New Orleans police officer who was under investigation in a drug conspiracy case, was sentenced to death on two convictions in April 1996 for ordering the murder of a young black woman who had previously seen him beat a witness in an unrelated incident. (names in brackets had death sentences reversed, but are awaiting final disposition) Sentenced Since the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994:
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