Associated Press - November 13, 2009 6:04 PM ET

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the death sentence for Kenneth Eugene Billups in the drug-related fatal shooting of Stevon Lockett in Birmingham.

Billups also faces the death penalty for the slayings of 4 men killed three days after Lockett's killing on Dec. 13, 2003.

The appeals court also upheld Friday the capital murder conviction of Jimmy Lamar Killingsworth Jr. He was sentenced to death for the Dec. 10, 2004 shooting death of 36-year-old Steven C. Spears of Randolph.

Spears was killed when a shotgun was fired into his car from another vehicle as he and his wife were driving home from a family gathering in Bibb County.

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