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| | Daily Home - Peoples put to death |
 | | During the last round of appeals, Peoples was represented by attorney William C. Cagney of New Brunswick, N.J. Cagney was unavailable for comment Thursday, but according to the Associated Press, Peoples’ final appeals were based on his planned lethal injection, even though Circuit Judge Jerry Fielding had sentenced him to die by electrocution. |
 | | Peoples and his cousin, Timothy Gooden, drove to the Franklin home after dark Wednesday, July 6, 1983, according to evidence presented at his trial. |
 | | Peoples, who was in jail in Pell City for the stolen car, gave a verbal and written confession to Talladega County Sheriff Jerry Studdard and St. Clair County Sheriff Lewis Brown the next day, and led Talladega County authorities to the dump site. |
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