The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals last week upheld the capital murder convictions of the gunman in a 2020 Hartselle murder-for-hire plot, rejecting his argument that jurors should have been instructed on a defense-of-others theory.
Logan McKinley Delp, 42, of Madison, was convicted by a Morgan County jury in October 2025 of two counts of capital murder in the killing of Anthony Larry Sheppard, 41, of Hartselle. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The two convictions were based on separate provisions of Alabama’s capital murder law: murder committed for payment or other valuable consideration and murder committed by shooting into an occupied dwelling…