11-10-2019 20:09 via kvoa.com

Hearing set to consider DNA testing in case of executed man

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A hearing has been set to determine whether DNA testing should be conducted on evidence from a 1985 crime to possibly exonerate a Tennessee man posthumously.
April Alley filed a petition in April requesting that DNA evidence be tested in an effort to prove her father’s innocence. Sedley Alley was executed in 2006 for the rape and murder of 19-year-old Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins.
News outlets report a Shelby County judge is expected to make a decis
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