Montgomery Advertiser - Tue Nov 03

ATMORE - Corrections officials say 64-year-old David Larry Nelson, who has been on death row for more than 27 years, has died at the Holman prison infirmary.

WIAT-TV Birmingham - Sat Oct 31

Sheriff Grover Smith said 51-year-old Richard Hawthorne was arrested Friday and was released from jail the same day after his wife posted $100,000 bail.

Alabama Live - Sat Oct 31

BREWTON, Ala. - Escambia County Sheriff's deputies arrested school board member Richard Hawthorne on Friday after a grand jury indicted the former corrections officer on seven charges in connection with allegations that he fondled female inmates under his control, according to Escambia County Sheriff Grover Smith.