Joyce Hardin Garrard, an Alabama woman serving life without parole in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter, said her trial included numerous mistakes.(Photo: Eric T. Wright/AP file)
The Alabama woman serving life<span style="color: Red;">*</span>without<span style="color: Red;">*</span>parole for the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter died<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Friday, according to authorities.
Joyce Hardin Garrard, 50, was convicted of capital murder last March in the death of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>her granddaughter, Savannah Hardin, in 2012. Garrard allegedly<span style="color: Red;">*</span>forced<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Savannah to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>run for several hours as punishment for lying about eating candy bars.
The 9-year-old collapsed and died several days later in a Birmingham hospital.
Garrard maintained she exercised along with the girl outside of the family's home in northeastern Alabama.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"If she was running, I was running," Garrard said in court.
She was convicted last March after jurors sided with prosecutors who said Savannah’s final hours were torture.
Garrard died Friday evening at a Montgomery hospital, five days after she collapsed in prison,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
the Associated Press<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reported. The cause of death has not been confirmed.
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