Executed August 4, 2005
George Sibley 
George Sibley & Lynda Lyon
Husband and Wife on Death Row In Alabama
Lynda Lyon's Homepage
George Everette Sibley, Jr.
Born and raised in South Bend, Indiana
Moved to Orlando, Florida in 1976.
He spent most of his life designing and converting cars and engines into drag racers,
and also worked on street racers and circle track cars.
He owned his own car repair shop in Orlando, but closed it when he couldn't
find proficient mechanics to repair cars to his standards.
He enjoys reading, sport shooting, auto cross competing,
and political activism on libertarian issues.
In recent years he became a well-respected legal researcher and drafter of
constitutionally correct revocation and sovereignty-status documents.
Sibley files appeal seeking to stop execution
Condemned murderer George Sibley, who once joined his
common-law wife in claiming the courts had no
legal jurisdiction in their death penalty case, has filed an appeal to
stop his execution scheduled for Thursday.
Sibley, 60, is scheduled
to become the 1st person in Alabama executed by lethal injection.
His common-law wife, Lynda Lyon Block, 54, was executed on May 10,
possibly the last person to die in Alabama's electric chair.
Sibley and Block were sentenced to death for the 1993
killing of Opelika
police officer Roger Motley
Jr. in a burst of gunfire in a shopping center parking lot.
Block and Sibley, who decried government controls over individuals and
renounced their U.S. citizenship,
were on the run at the time to avoid being sentenced in the
stabbing of Block's former husband in Orlando, Fla.
Sibley and Block declined
for years to file appeals in their case, claiming the courts were
corrupt
and illegal.
But Sibley in recent days filed an appeal in federal court in
Montgomery asking for a stay, his attorney said Monday.
U.S. District Judge
Harold Albritton has scheduled a hearing on the request for 10 a.m.
Tuesday.
Montgomery attorney Bryan Stevenson said he filed the
appeal at Sibley's request.
Stevenson said the appeal "is based on issues relating to the fairness
of his conviction and death sentence."
Assistant Attorney General Beth Hughes said the state would fight the
request for a stay,
arguing that Sibley has missed the deadline for filing appeals.
A Web site operated by supporters of Sibley and Block
said Monday that a letter was being sent to
Gov. Don Siegelman on Sibley's behalf asking the governor to stop the
execution.
The governor's office had not received the request Monday, press
secretary Mike Kanarick said.
The Alabama legislature in April voted to change the
state's primary means of execution to lethal injection,
although death row inmates can still choose to die in the electric
chair.
Prison officials said Sibley declined to make a choice and therefore is
scheduled to die by lethal injection.
Prisons spokesman Brian Corbett said Monday that preparations are
complete at Holman prison near
Atmore to carry out the state's first execution by lethal injection.
"We are ready to go. The
chamber has been ready for about a month now," Corbett said. Unless a
stay
is ordered,
ibley is expected to be moved into a holding cell near the execution
chamber Tuesday, Corbett said.
(source: Associated Press)
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