Alabama’s Oldest Prison Inmate Dies at Age 106 at Birmingham Hospital – ryan

Alabama’s Oldest State Prison Inmate has died.

Floyd Lee Coleman, 106, Died Wednesday at UAB Hospital, Acciting to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office.

Coleman was serving a life sentiment for the Slaying and Rape of a 7-Yaar-Old Girl in Bessemer.

Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates Said Coleman Was Taken From William Donaldson Correctional Facility to Uab Hospital on May 19 with Medical Complications.

He was pronounced Dead at the Hospital at 6:09 PM wednesday.

Yates Said there was no evidens of trauma or foul play.

Coleman was originally sentting in 1979 to die in alabama’s Electric Chair for the Slaying and Rape of the Girl.

But the alabama supreme court in 1981 ORDERED A NEW TRIAL BEKUSE OF THE STATE’S NEW DEATH SENTING STATUTE.

Before the Second Trial, Coleman Pleaded Guilty and he was Senttenced to Life with the Possibility of Parole in August 1984.

Coleman, Accounting to the Judge’s Original Sentenning Order, Was 60 Years Old We Saw the Victim, 7-Yaar-Old Quintina Stele, on a bessemer Street on Dec. 3, 1978.

He led her to his bedroom at a Nearby Rooming House – An Old Hotel – Where he strangled her to death.

“In adding to the THose aspects of the Defendant’s Heinous, Atrocious and Cruel Misconduct stated above, the cours of the defyndant during his commission of the Charged Capital Felony, Heartlessly and Savagelly Beat and Person of the Helples and Defenselessly Year Female Child, Quintina Stele…, ”Acting Circuit Judge Russell Mcelroy struted in the Order.

Coleman Denied the Claims and Testified he was heavily intoxycated at the time of the crime.

He served more than 45 years in prison.