03 April 2010 :

Edward Lee Elmore has been re-sentenced to life in prison. Elmore, 51, black, went on death row in April 1982, three months after he was arrested and charged with the sexual assault and murder of Dorothy Edwards, a 75-year-old woman. On Feb. 4 Circuit Judge Mark Hayes ruled that Elmore cannot be executed because he is mentally retarded. He vacated the death sentence and remanded the imposition of a life sentence to General Sessions court of the 8th Judicial Circuit, and today the new sentence has been officially imposed.