The brutal slaying of an Alabama woman, captured in chilling detail on camera, has now led to her accused killers facing the ultimate sentence—a reckoning that police say fits the "deplorable and sickening" nature of their crime.
On Sept. 13, a grand jury indicted Giovonnie Clapp, Blair Green, Teja Lewis, Si'Nya McCall, and Airana Lashay Robinson on capital murder charges. Two other suspects, Brandon Pope and Jeremiah McDowell, had already been charged with capital murder.
Mahogany Jackson, 20, was found shot to death in the woods on February 26 and had allegedly been sexually assaulted prior to her murder.
"The facts of this case are deplorable and sickening," Birmingham Police Department Chief Scott Thurmond said at the time of the arrests.
"Saddest of all, they were made public by the suspects' decision to videotape portions of this horrific act."
Gail Maddox Trotter, Jackson's mother, said her daughter was full of life and loved her family.
"She had a baby and didn't deserve what happened to her," Trotter said in an interview with CBS 42.
On February 25, Jackson texted family members that she was being held hostage.
She was killed soon after and her body was later dumped at an illegal dump site called "Dead Man's Road."
Video footage showed a tortured Jackson being stomped on, spit on before, dragged by her hair and naked toward the trunk of a car.
All suspects remain in the Jefferson County Jail with no bond.
