30 September 2020 :

Christopher Revis, now 42, White, has been resentenced to life with the possibility of parole. Revis pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and received a life with the possibility of parole sentence in the February 2004 death of Jerry Stidham. Revis has been on death row since 2006 and will now serve time in the general prison population and will be eligible for parole at some point. Revis had been sentenced to death by his trial judge in 2006 after a non-unanimous (11-1) jury sentencing vote. Revis' brother, Jason Revis, and uncle, Eddie Revis, were also convicted in Stidham’s death. Jason is serving a life sentence and Eddie died while serving a life without parole sentence. On September 16, as preparations for an October 26 retrial were getting under way, Revis and Winston County prosecutors entered a plea deal to end the case. On September 23, Judge John H. Bentley — who had twice sentenced Revis to death — ordered that the 16 years Revis had spent in prison since his arrest, including 14 years on death row, be counted towards his time served for purposes of parole eligibility. Bentley initially imposed the death penalty on Revis after the jury voted 11-1 to recommend death. He reimposed the death penalty after the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the death sentence, ruling that the court had double-counted aggravating facts about the murder. In 2015, Bentley overturned Revis’ conviction because of juror misconduct, finding that two jurors had violated the court’s orders not to discuss the case before deliberations. He also found that Revis’ court-appointed counsel had been ineffective in the penalty phase for failing to investigate and present available mitigating evidence. At that time, Bentley wrote that it was his “unshakeable opinion” that the jury would have recommended a life sentence if it had been aware of “even a fraction of the available mitigating evidence” counsel had failed to investigate, and that if the jury had still recommended death, “the Court would have overridden the jury’s death sentence.”

https://www.al.com/news/2020/09/alabama-inmate-being-removed-from-death-row.html