MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Attorney General’s office has asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for a man convicted of killing three people at a Gadsden Popeye’s Restaurant in 1994.
Assistant Attorney General Clay Crenshaw said Thursday that 38-year-old Robert Bryant Melson has exhausted his available appeals.
Melson was convicted in the shooting deaths of three workers at the Popeye’s during a late night robbery. According to trial testimony, the workers were rounded up by two gunmen and taken into a freezer where they were shot.
Another man, Cuhuatemoc “Half Pint” Peraita, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Peraita is now on death row for killing an inmate at Holman Prison in Atmore.
