Latoni Daniel has given birth to a boy, a child conceived in the Coosa County Jail according to her attorney, and is facing the death penalty if found guilty of capital murder and robbery.
“We have a 6-pound bouncing boy,” attorney Mickey McDermott said Wednesday afternoon.
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