Alabama Court Upholds Death Row Inmate's Sentence

0:00It's April 8th. Welcome to Birmingham News Today, powered by AI. Alabama's Court of Criminal Appeals just upheld the dismissal of a death row inmate's latest challenge to his conviction. Robert Berg got the death penalty back in 2007 for his part in a brutal triple homicide during a robbery at a Birmingham hotel on Thanksgiving Day in 2005. He and an accomplice shot three people in the back of the head and got caught on camera without hiding their faces. Executers nailed Berg on four counts of capital murder, including killings tied to the robbery and taking out multiple victims in one go. A jury recommended death, the judge agreed, and appeals courts backed it up early on. Then in 2012, Berg filed for post-conviction relief, kicking off a long legal fight. That petition bounced around Jefferson County judges for over a decade before getting tossed in 2023. The attorney general's office calls this the latest win, upholding the original verdict, closing another door on Berg's claims.

1:00On March 27th, 2026, the appeals court affirmed the lower court's call, rejecting Berg's arguments point by point. This ruling keeps Berg's death sentence locked in, with no fresh pass open for now in Alabama's justice system.