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Dallas County

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Oct 10, 2026

Rick ClevelandHOST
12:02
TR Miller 35, Escambia County 19.
Rick ClevelandHOST
12:07
Tallassee 46, Beauregard 9, Thompson 47, Hewitt Trussville 17, Thorsby 50, Dallas County 12, Tuscaloosa Academy 69, Elwood 0, UMS Wright 33, Montgomery Catholic 27 in double overtime, Viger 56, BC Rain 6, WS Neal 35, Wilcox Central 6, Washington County 50, Fruitdale 12, Wetumpka 43, Park Crossing 21, Wilcox Academy 16, Jackson Academy 0, Williamson 42, Citronelle 7, Wilson 14, West Limestone 7, Winneboro 46, Lafayette 14, Zion Chapel 14, Houston County 6.
Rick ClevelandHOST
13:10
That pretty much wraps up the scores that we have from around the state.
Rick ClevelandHOST
13:14
And, you know, we were talking a little bit about who we thought was the best team in 1A in the state right now.
Randy BurganHOST
17:00
And Winfield, 48; Danville, 6.
Randy BurganHOST
17:03
In class 2A, Aliceville, 49; Dallas County, 0.
Randy BurganHOST
17:07
Colbert County, Colbert County, 32; Lexington, 29.
Randy BurganHOST
17:11
Collinsville, 48; Section, 6.
Mark LasterHOST
17:03
6.
Mark LasterHOST
17:03
In Class 2A, Aliceville 49, Dallas County 0, Colbert County 32, Lexington 0.
Mark LasterHOST
17:11
29, Collinsville, 48, Section 6, Cottonwood, 56, Harrington, 0, Dayville, 28, Central Coosa, 0, Fife, 62, Ider, 0, Gaston, 72, Sachs, 42.
Mark LasterHOST
17:24
Good Lord.
Albright AbodeGUEST
43:12
I thought I could be a 100-meter, 200-meter champ, you know, hurdles champ.
Albright AbodeGUEST
43:16
But then later on, I got introduced into basketball my first year of secondary school by someone at my school in Dallas, Alabama.
Albright AbodeGUEST
43:23
I've been playing basketball since then.
Austin O'CallaghanHOST
43:25
Well, you certainly have Usain Bolt's physique.
Jason SmithHOST
1:53
I'd never been, so this is my first true time going to be the one hunting.
Jason SmithHOST
1:59
You were in Dallas County.
Jason SmithHOST
2:02
We were in Dallas County, Wilcox County, way on down there.
Jason SmithHOST
2:08
We stayed right on Miller's Ferry.
Jason SmithHOST
2:10
I mean, you could see the dam whenever we rolled out.
speaker_6NARRATOR
40:31
32 here, 20 there, 8 with a man in the city, 16 on a landing down river, 4, 6, 1, 2 scattered out into counties 100 miles inland, where a person might work an entire field season and never once hear a word of their own language spoken aloud by anybody.
speaker_6NARRATOR
40:54
The little girl of two went inland to Dallas County with her mother and one sister.
speaker_6NARRATOR
41:00
She grew up in a household where three people could speak Yoruba and nobody else in the county could.
speaker_6NARRATOR
41:06
And that is a language on a short clock.

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speaker_6NARRATOR
70:27
His photograph was taken.
speaker_6NARRATOR
70:29
A short film was made of him in his yard, and he stood in it, an old man in a suit, looking at a camera.
speaker_6NARRATOR
70:38
And in Dallas County, 150 miles inland, two elderly women who had been on that same ship read about him in a newspaper and began working out how to get to mobile.
speaker_6NARRATOR
70:52
300 miles, in December 1931, was not a distance.
Sharon ReedHOST
14:22
It allows judges to overrule jury verdicts in death penalty cases.
Sharon ReedHOST
14:28
Again, why would you want to do that? Dallas County Circuit Court Judge Jack Meeks.
Sharon ReedHOST
14:36
Take a good look at him.
Sharon ReedHOST
14:38
And he looks exactly how I thought he'd look, too.
Sharon ReedHOST
17:50
The case in the trial.
Sharon ReedHOST
17:52
As you know, Mr. Lee, who is
Sharon ReedHOST
17:53
black, was charged with the 1998 shooting deaths of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson and attempted murder of Helen King during the robbery of a pawn shop near Oroville in Dallas County, Alabama.
Sharon ReedHOST
18:07
All three victims were white.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
21:35
Lee's was the second execution in Alabama this year, following that of Jeremy Williams on August 13th.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
21:42
On December 12th, 1998, Lee, then 21, entered Jimmy's Pawn Shop in Orville, a small town west of Selma in rural Dallas County, and asked an employee about wedding rings, saying he would return after getting money from his grandmother.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
21:58
According to the Attorney General's office, Lee had spent the night drinking and using marijuana and cocaine.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
22:04
He returned minutes later with a sawed-off shotgun and open fire, killing the store's owner, Jimmy Ellis, and his ex-wife, employee Elaine Thompson.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
22:27
Lee was convicted of capital murder and attempted murder in April 2000 after a trial that lasted less than two days.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
22:35
Leah's black and all three victims were white.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
22:38
Dallas County lies in Alabama's so-called Black Belt, a region with a long history of racial oppression, and the prosecutor used all 21 of his peremptory strikes to remove black potential jurors, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
22:53
Lee's court-appointed attorney had never tried a capital case and did almost nothing to prepare for trial, according to court filings.
AmaraHOST
9:54
But once you move beyond the more populated parts of the city, the landscape changed quickly.
AmaraHOST
10:01
Selma sits along the Alabama River, surrounded by stretches of rural Dallas County, where highways give way to wooded areas, farmland, and long, less traveled roads.
AmaraHOST
10:14
And that meant that there was a lot of ground to cover.
AmaraHOST
10:18
But still, Tarasha's family searched wherever they could.
AmaraHOST
12:54
Volunteers gathered at the Larry D. Striplin Performing Arts Center, which became a central meeting point for the search, and people showed up.
AmaraHOST
13:03
Friends, relatives, and members of the community came together, ready to search wherever they needed.
AmaraHOST
13:10
Volunteers were divided into teams and assigned different areas throughout Selma and the surrounding parts of Dallas County.
AmaraHOST
13:18
Some walked neighborhoods and searched along roads.
Mike HempenCORRESPONDENT
0:00
Alabama is set to execute a man with a chemical injection three months after a judge blocked the state from putting him to death with nitrogen gas.
Mike HempenCORRESPONDENT
0:09
49-year-old Jeffrey Lee is scheduled to receive the chemical injection Thursday evening for killing two people during a 1998 pawn shop robbery in Dallas County.
Mike HempenCORRESPONDENT
0:19
The state initially wanted to execute Lee with nitrogen gas in June, but after a judge stopped that plan, the state sought a new execution date using chemical injection.
Mike HempenCORRESPONDENT
0:29
Lee's lawyers are challenging whether the state can legally switch execution methods.

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