An Alabama man is now facing an execution date after being convicted of killing three police officers in 2004. Nathaniel Woods and his co-defendant, Kerry Spencer, were convicted for killing Birmingham police officers, Charles Bennett, Harley Chisolm, and Carlos Owen in 2004. Both have been sentenced to death for their involvements in the murders.

At trial, prosecutors persuaded jurors that the men gunned down the police officers in an ambush as they attempted to serve a warrant on Nathanial Woods. The officers were deceased by the time help could arrive. Officer Bennett was discovered with a smoking hole in his face while Owen and Chisolm were found in the apartment.

Prosecutors claimed during the 2005 trial that Woods helped set up an ambush but Kerry Spencer was the trigger man. The jury would convict Woods of multiple counts of capital murder and of the attempted murder of another officer. The jury ultimately voted 10 to 2 in favor of a death sentence.

Woods is scheduled to be put to death on March 5, 2020 at a south Alabama prison.