HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the capital murder conviction and death sentence of a Huntsville man on Friday.
Warren Hardy was convicted of capital murder for the shooting death of 72-year-old Kathleen Lundy and sentenced to death in 2022. Lundy, a NASA retiree heading to a family gathering, was killed at her home in August 2016 during what investigators called a “crime spree” by Hardy.
Hardy was convicted by a jury in April 2022 on all five of the charges he faced, including capital murder during a robbery, two counts of first-degree kidnapping, first-degree domestic violence and aggravated stalking and one count of discharging a gun into an occupied vehicle…