Grandmother accused of running girl to death to face capital charge
22.05.12
A woman accused of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for eating chocolate was captured on a school bus videotape saying she planned to run the child "'til she can't run no more," a prosecutor told a judge Thursday in announcing capital murder charges.
Joyce Hardin Garrard, who faces a potential death penalty if convicted, made the threat as she yanked Savannah Hardin off a school bus that was equipped with a surveillance system, said Marcus Reid, an assistant district attorney in Etowah County.
Angered by a supposed lie the child told, Garrard told the driver: `"I gonna run her `til she can't run no more,"' Reid said.
"That's exactly what she did," said the prosecutor, calling Garrard a "drill sergeant from hell."
Garrard, 46, and Savannah's stepmother, 27-year-old Jessica Mae Hardin, are both charged in the child's death last month. Authorities say the older woman made the child run for three hours as punishment, and the younger woman -- who was nine months pregnant at the time and has since given birth -- did nothing to intervene.
Source: Fox News