BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the eight people accused of kidnapping, assaulting and killing a 20-year-old mother.

Jefferson County Assistant District Attorney Charissa Henrich filed a notice with the court Friday that she would seek the death penalty if any of the suspects were convicted of capital murder. Henrich called the case “particularly heinous, cruel or cruel compared to other capital crimes.”

According to Scott Thurmond, the police chief at the time, Mahogany Jackson sent a text message to her family early on the morning of Feb. 25, giving her location and saying she had been kidnapped. The location appeared to show she was in the home of someone she knew. The next day, police found her body on a street in southwest Birmingham. She died of a gunshot wound.

Birmingham Homicide Detective Mark Green testified that videos taken by the suspects themselves and submitted by an unnamed witness show Jackson was kidnapped and physically and sexually assaulted before three of the suspects drove her to where she was shot and left on a road , AL.com reported.

“This is without a doubt one of the most despicable acts I have seen in my career. It’s absolutely disgusting,” Thurmond said at the time.

A public defender representing at least one of the suspects has filed a motion to exclude the death penalty if the jury’s verdict is not unanimous.

All eight suspects were being held without bail and were scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges Monday. At least one of the suspects pleaded not guilty, said his attorney, Glennon Threatt. Lawyers for the others did not respond to a request for comment.

Five of the suspects were initially charged with aggravated murder, but in September a grand jury upgraded the charges to capital murder.