The suspect in the death of a 43-year-old man who was stripped, bound and tortured before he was fatally gunned down outside an east Birmingham home two days before Christmas 2023 is fighting for his life in a Jefferson County courtroom.
Joshua Corey Guthrie, 35, of Fairfield, is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of David Nicholas, and with the kidnapping of Nicholas’s girlfriend.
She was stripped, beaten and held against her will for roughly 12 hours after watching Nicholas die…