Menyana Hardy, who was convicted as an accomplice in the 2001 murder of Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr’s brother, was up for parole Wednesday.

Her parole, however, was swiftly denied by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles after Attorney General Steve Marshall and others spoke out against her release.

Jackstin Dannard Hunter, Carr’s younger brother, was killed in September 2001 by Phillip Spencer and Arthur Love. The two men were charged with capital murder after kidnapping Hunter, taking him to an old mine north of Birmingham, robbing and killing him.

Hardy was 17 at the time. She was convicted for felony murder for luring Hunter to her home, where he was accosted and later killed by Spencer and Love. She was charged as an adult and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

“A brother (Danny Carr) who is the leading voice for justice in his community, driven by what he has experienced in his own family, is a remarkable testimony to who he is and what he’s about, but that investment in good does not mitigate against what [he and his mother] are here asking you to do today and that is to provide justice for their brother,” Marshall told the board during the hearing.

“There’s many who place less culpability on someone for murder if they did not pull the trigger but that is not the law…in this case she is singularly responsible for the fact that young man is not here today and why this family has suffered his loss.”

Love was sentenced to 25 years for his role in the slaying. Spencer, the shooter, was sentenced to life without parole.

In 2021, Hardy told the Southern Poverty Law Center that she was in an abusive relationship with Spencer at the time. She said Hunter had asked her to come to a party the night he was killed, but she was grounded and couldn’t leave her house.

There were multiple calls between Hardy and Hunter that night. Eventually, he went to her house and was kidnapped outside by Spencer and Love.

According to SPLC, Hardy completed multiple classes, certificates and work placements in prison and was accepted into a reentry program in Montgomery ahead of her first parole hearing in 2018.

Her parole was denied in 2018 and again on Wednesday. No one spoke in support of Hardy’s release.

Marshall, Carr, Carr’s mother Regina Carr-Hope– who was the principal at Wenonah High School in Birmingham for 14 years– and a representative from the nonprofit Victims of Crime and Leniency spoke against Hardy’s release.

“She was, by a jury of her peers, convicted based on the facts and the law for playing a key part in my brother’s death…if not for her calling him, he would never have even been there. So she is obviously and clearly a direct link between his death and the fact we no longer have him here with us,” Carr said during the hearing.

“Obviously, you know I’m a lawyer, I’m the DA and I understand how this works, but any consideration that can be given to her continued punishment would be appreciated,” he added.

The Parole and Pardons Board unanimously voted to not reconsider Hardy’s parole before her sentence ends. She will be released from prison on December 31, 2028.

“I had the privilege of working hand-in-hand with Danny for a long time as a friend, as a fellow deputy district attorney and I know what it means to work with someone that truly does justice everyday,” Leigh Gwathney, chair of the parole board, said after delivering the vote.

“Danny, I’m so sorry. We’d give anything in the world to take this away; but for everything in the world to take this away but for everything y’all do to make this world a better place when you’ve seen the hardest of things, thank you and we’re so grateful to know you,” she added.

Love had his parole denied in 2022, but his earliest possible release is October 2025.