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Hays was executed in "Yellow Mama", Alabama's electric chair, on June 6, 1997. Among the witnesses to the execution was Michael Donald's brother. The Associated Press reported that Hays was Alabama's first execution since 1913 for a white-on-black crime. Hays is the only known KKK member to have been executed in the 20th century for the murder ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Alabama since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 78 people (77 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama. All executions between December 2002 and 2023 were conducted by lethal injection.
The murders that Woods was convicted of took place on June 17, 2004, in Birmingham, Alabama.Four police officers: Harley Chisholm III, Charles Bennett, Carlos Owen, and Michael Collins, had a verbal confrontation with Woods while trying to serve an outstanding arrest warrant against another individual, who was not present, at a crack house on 18th Street. [11]
Alabama death row inmate James Barber was executed early Friday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay over fears that he could be subject to “substantial harm ...
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections after two failed executions prompted the governor to order an ...
James Barber, 64, was put to death by lethal injection at 1:56 a.m. U.S. central time (0656 GMT) at the William Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, the governor's office said in an ...
From 1983 to 2024, Alabama has executed 78 people. [12] As of January 2025, Alabama had 158 inmates on death row, the 4th highest number in the US. [21] A governor has commuted only one death sentence since 1976: outgoing Governor Fob James commuted Judith Ann Neelley's death sentence to life in prison in January 1999. [22]
A second death warrant was later finalized, ordering Smith to be put to death on January 25, 2024, by nitrogen hypoxia, which was a secondary execution method in Alabama and had never been administered since its implementation. On January 10, 2024, a federal judge ruled that Alabama could proceed with the execution of Smith using nitrogen gas.