Gadsden man sentenced to die in slaying of girlfriend’s son

GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) – An east Alabama man has been sentenced to die in the slaying of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son.

Kevin Andre Towles was sentenced on a capital murder charge Tuesday in the 2006 death of Geontae Glass.

Prosecutors have said Towles beat the boy and staged a kidnapping with the boy’s mother, Shalinda Glass, to try concealing the child’s death. Shalinda Glass pleaded guilty to murder and is serving a life sentence.

Before Towles was sentenced he told the judge he didn’t think he got a fair trial.

Towles was convicted and sentenced to death in 2009, but the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals sent the case back to Etowah County court for a retrial because of concerns over witness testimony.