Aniah Blanchard case moves to sentencing

More than six years after Aniah Blanchard’s killing shocked Alabama and drew national attention, her family is still carrying both the grief of her loss and the weight of a case that changed state law. On March 19, a Macon County jury found Ibraheem Yazeed guilty of murder and felony murder in Blanchard’s 2019 death. Because the jury convicted him on lesser charges instead of capital murder, he is no longer eligible for the death penalty.