In Alabama, you can be sentenced to death even if jurors don't agree

AP/Pat Sullivan Ronald Bert Smith walked into a Huntsville, Ala., convenience store with a Colt .45 semi-automatic pistol on Nov. 8, 1994, and shot clerk Casey Wilson to death during a robbery captured on video. A jury in August 1995 unanimously convicted Smith of capital murder. Then the jurors, in a 7-5 vote, recommended that the judge sentence Smith to life without parole instead of death. So why, 21 years later, is Smith, now 45, set to be strapped down to a gurney and executed by lethal inj...