A woman originally sentenced to die for the 1982 rape and slaying of a 13-year-old Georgia girl in Alabama has waived her parole hearing.
Fifty-three-year-old Judith Ann Neelley says in a letter obtained by AL.com that she waived the hearing to avoid further traumatizing Lisa Ann Millican’s family. Court documents say Neelley kidnapped Millican for her then-husband, Alvin, to rape. Neelley then injected Millican with drain cleaner, shot her and pushed her into a canyon.
Neelley’s death sentence was commuted to life in 1999 by Alabama Gov. Fob James. A 2003 Alabama law barring Neelley from parole was ruled unconstitutional in March. If granted parole later, Neelley may be arrested by Georgia authorities who have a warrant for her for a consecutive life sentence in a kidnapping case.
(Associated Press, copyright 2018)
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