Alabama Man Sentenced

Circuit Judge David Kimberley handed down the sentence.

Boyle, 25, was convicted of capital murder in November and the jury recommended the death penalty.

Savannah White died from a series of blunt-force injuries to her head, testimony revealed during the trial.

Savannah’s older sister, now 9, testified she saw Boyle slap the 2-year-old around and throw her against a bathtub in the family’s Rainbow City home on Oct. 26, 2005.

`The defendant`s actions in the brutal murder of this helpless child clearly fit within the parameters of the aggravating circumstances found by the jury to exist in this case,” Kimberly said in his judgment.