A photo of Hartselle resident Anthony Larry Sheppard holding his then-infant daughter sat on a table in Morgan County Circuit Court on Friday as his mother and two sisters told the man who killed him five years ago that he had taken away a loving father and family man — and that they had no forgiveness for him.
Logan McKinley Delp, 41, was convicted on two counts of capital murder by a jury Thursday evening after less than an hour of deliberations in a four-day trial. One of his co-defendants, Lajuhn Keith Smith, 29, pleaded guilty Oct. 20 to one count of felony murder, according to court records, and was sentenced to 20 years in the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Three other defendants involved in Sheppard’s murder have been charged with capital murder, including the mother of Sheppard’s child, 43-year-old Jaclyn Skuce…