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Toforest Onesha Johnson (born February 8, 1973) [1] is an American man on death row for the 1995 murder of Jefferson County deputy sheriff William G. Hardy in Alabama.Johnson's case is controversial and his quest for a new trial has attracted widespread support, from prominent lawyers such as the original prosecutor in his case and Alabama's former attorney general to celebrities such as Kim ...
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.
Walter Leroy Moody Jr. (March 24, 1935 – April 19, 2018) was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death and executed in Alabama for the 1989 letter bomb murder of Robert S. Vance, a U.S. federal judge serving on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man in Alabama, who was found hanging in an abandoned house, following a request from a local sheriff amid fears among ...
Alabama put to death inmate Carey Dale Grayson for the 1994 murder of a hitchhiker, the third execution using nitrogen gas in the US. Grayson, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. on Thursday at ...
A man has been charged in connection with the double homicide outside a funeral reception in Brighton, Ala., that killed two men — including rapper Landlord Lo. James David Abercrombie, 27, was ...
From 1983 to 2015, Alabama has executed 78 people. [12] As of December 2024, Alabama had 157 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]
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 ...