Alabama
Inmate serving life for 1989 murder-for-hire dies in Alabama prison
A Jefferson County man serving life for a 1989 contract killing has died in prison.
Guy Greggory Griggs, 60, sustained a head injury on Jan. 9 when he fell at William Donaldson Correctional Facility, according to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office.
He was hospitalized and then returned to the prison infirmary where he died at 1:16 p.m. Wednesday, said Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates.
Griggs was convicted of capital murder in Jefferson County in the 1989 shooting death of Kerry Mixon. According to court documents, Griggs and another man paid the shooter $1,000 to killed Mixon on Sept. 7, 1989.