Mobile County Circuit Court judge Roderick Stout on Thursday sentenced
Leavell-Keaton to death by lethal injection, upholding jurors'
recommendation.
Leavell-Keaton is the first woman in Mobile County history sentenced to death row.
The jury found that Leavell-Keaton intentionally killed Chase DeBlase in
2010, and recklessly caused the death of his 4-year-old sister Natalie
DeBlase. Prosecutors alleged that Leavell-Keaton cooked anti-freeze into
the children's food.
Prosecutors have said the children were tortured, gagged and choked to
death. Chase and Natalie DeBlase's bodies were found dumped in remote
areas near Citronelle, Alabama, and Vancleave, Mississippi.
John DeBlase, the children's father, was sentenced to death in late 2014.
AP
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