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Two Escambia Men Sentenced To Life In Prison
June 16, 2011
Two Escambia County men recently released from prison are headed back behind bars after being convicted Wednesday in unrelated cases.
Terrance Lavell Coleman
Terrance Lavell Coleman, 23, entered a plea of guilty Wednesday before Judge Jan Shackelford on charges of aggravated sexual battery and aggravated battery committed upon a 52 year old woman on June 13, 2010. Immediately following his plea, Shackelford sentenced Coleman to life in prison and 30 years state prison concurrent, as a prison releasee reoffender.
Coleman had recently been released from state prison on June 1, 2010, after serving a sentence for a conviction of aggravated battery upon a woman in 2008 when he committed these crimes. He is also currently serving a life sentence he received after his conviction for aggravated sexual battery on another woman which he committed in July 2010. Coleman still faces pending charges for attempted sexual battery on another woman stemming from an attack at Pensacola Village on July 12, 2010. That case remains set for trial before Shackelford in August.
Raynell Donaldson, Jr.
Also Wednesday, Judge Paul Rasmussen sentenced Raynell Donaldson, Jr., to life in prison for robbery with a deadly weapon and 30 years consecutive for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
On April 27, 2011, Donaldson was convicted by an Escambia County jury of robbery with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Donaldson approached a female victim and asked her how much money she had on her. When the victim showed Donaldson that she had only $2 on her, he became enraged and stabbed the victim 20 times before fleeing with the change, according to the State Attorney’s Office.
Donaldson was previously released from prison in 2008 for a robbery and felony murder charge.
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8 Responses to “Two Escambia Men Sentenced To Life In Prison”
How did Donaldson get out after this?? Just in 2017 he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for burglary… I don’t get how he got out in the first place, why is there nothing more on this story?
REGARDING:
“I agree with William Blackstone’s comment, “it’s better for 10 guilty men to go free, than for one innocent to be wrongfully convicted”- (especially when it comes to putting someone to death)! To decrease the appeals to just one is not right!”
I’ve never wanted any innocent people convicted, in part because that means the guilty are still out there preying on others.
On the other hand, I also don’t want ten serial killers to go free because we didn‘t want to run the slight chance they might not have killed ALL the people for whom they were charged because they ALSO would be out there preying on others.
So my goal would be for all the innocent to go free, none of the guilty to go free. (Unless the guilty include me, of course in which case, forget about justice, just get me outta there!)
I wish that were the goal of our legal system.
David for safe children,
safe women,
safe me
safe thee
@DOC
I am for the death penalty… for the truly guilty! There have been too many people released from death row, after trying, and trying to prove their innocence. I agree with William Blackstone’s comment, “it’s better for 10 guilty men to go free, than for one innocent to be wrongfully convicted”- (especially when it comes to putting someone to death)! To decrease the appeals to just one is not right!
I understand your frustrations, because it sickened me to know the crimes the people on death row have been convicted of, and it seem like they were never going to have to pay. I hated to have to see them breath the same air day in and day out, and live.
I was working in the AL prison system when they had to release someone who was wrongfully convicted. That could happen to anyone, or their family! I wouldn’t want it to happen to mine, and we only have one chance to get it right!
OMG!!!! Thank GOD in heaven I didn’t cross these beasts’ path!!!! All I can say is Thank GOD, Thank LEO’s, Thank the judges!!!!
At least these two judges had the guts to issue sentences that will keep them off the streets. I agree these two should not continue to breathe our fine air.
We, as citizens of this state, should appeal to this new govenor of ours to start thinning death row. If he wants to pass all this new legislation, why doesn’t he reduce the number of appeals to ONE for Death Row inmates & lets reduce prison spending in that manner! It has to be more cost effective to dispose of these ‘menaces to society’, than to support, them at the taxpayers’ expense, while Public Defenders(our expense, again) & private defenders fight in court over & over to save their pathetic, sorry lives. I think we should fire up “Old Sparky” & maybe even go back to public hangings for really horrendous crimes. GIVE THE CRIMINALS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT….INSTEAD OF 3 SQUARES & A ROOF !!!!!!
How many people do they have to rape, stab, rob and murder before they go into a pine box so it can never, ever happen to even one more person.
I am totally discussed with these men AND our justice system.
The justice system is to keep us safe ALL the time, not just
till the next time some creep makes bail, or release.
No pity here today for these two.
Life sentences….. really? Death Penalty with a trip to the front of the line. Ultra Violent offenders don’t need “life in prison”. By doing that the judges are just removing them from the eye sight of America. What they need is the death sentence and to be removed from this Earth.
and some people say there is no devil.