by TChris

Did officers of the Covington County Sheriff's Office in Alabama administer a death penalty without awaiting a trial? Officials say that Aaron Shaw "kicked a glass window out of a patrol car after being arrested in Florala and subsequently took an officer's tazer gun and repeatedly shocked him with it." But Shaw was shot to death after what witnesses describe as two beatings.

Several people have claimed that they saw the 47-year-old black man being badly beaten on two separate occasions before he was shot. The first incident, allegedly involving three Florala Police officers, occurred on MLK Ave., and a second alleged beating from those officers took place near 9th Ave. and the Carver Center in Florala.

Shaw was killed near an electrical substation on Hwy. 55 in Lockhart. Relatives and friends held a candlelight vigil for him yesterday.