Post by serialkiller on Sept 28, 2007 10:33:35 GMT -5
Criminal Art Sales Legislation
August 26, 2007
The state House of Representatives passed a bill requiring money collected by prisoners from their crimes to go to restitution, victims' compensation and fines.
The legislation, which passed 91-0, would not prohibit a criminal from selling art related to their crime, but would send any money generated to victims of crime or their families. The bill would allow a county attorney or the attorney general to petition the court to order the defendant to forfeit sales proceeds.
Rep. Cam Ward, R-Alabaster, sponsored the bill.
The bill came out of advertised sales by Alabama death row inmates Daniel Siebert and Jack Trawick.
Trawick, convicted of murdering 2 women in Birmingham in 1992, attracted national attention when he published writings on an Internet site giving details of the murders and providing advice on rape and murder.
Siebert was convicted of strangling his girlfriend and her 2 sons, aged 4 and 5, in 1986, but is believed to have committed over a dozen murders.
The Alabama Supreme Court has set an Oct. 25 execution date for the 53-year-old Siebert, who has been on death row for 20 years .
Both men are being held at Holman Correctional Facility in Escambia County, Alabama and were selling sketches including those of of murder and beheadings, through an internet site.
August 26, 2007
The state House of Representatives passed a bill requiring money collected by prisoners from their crimes to go to restitution, victims' compensation and fines.
The legislation, which passed 91-0, would not prohibit a criminal from selling art related to their crime, but would send any money generated to victims of crime or their families. The bill would allow a county attorney or the attorney general to petition the court to order the defendant to forfeit sales proceeds.
Rep. Cam Ward, R-Alabaster, sponsored the bill.
The bill came out of advertised sales by Alabama death row inmates Daniel Siebert and Jack Trawick.
Trawick, convicted of murdering 2 women in Birmingham in 1992, attracted national attention when he published writings on an Internet site giving details of the murders and providing advice on rape and murder.
Siebert was convicted of strangling his girlfriend and her 2 sons, aged 4 and 5, in 1986, but is believed to have committed over a dozen murders.
The Alabama Supreme Court has set an Oct. 25 execution date for the 53-year-old Siebert, who has been on death row for 20 years .
Both men are being held at Holman Correctional Facility in Escambia County, Alabama and were selling sketches including those of of murder and beheadings, through an internet site.