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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.
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 31, 2025 Marion Bowman Jr. 44 20 24 Male Black South Carolina: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 February 5, 2025 Steven Lawayne Nelson: 37 24 13 Texas: Profile: 3 February 6, 2025 Demetrius Terrence Frazier: 52 19 33 Alabama ...
In September 2014, the Alabama attorney general's office filed a motion with the Alabama Supreme Court to schedule the execution dates of nine death row inmates in Alabama, including Frazier, after they managed to amend the laws to approve a new lethal injection protocol. [26]
The execution is the US’ 22nd this year and sixth in Alabama. Grayson’s death was the third time a death row inmate was executed with nitrogen gas, a controversial method where the gas ...
Alabama death row inmate Derrick Dearman was executed Thursday evening, ... Republican Gov. Kay Ivey, who set Dearman's execution date, said in a statement that "six lives, including an unborn ...
Legally, all inmates sentenced to death in Alabama were allowed until June 30 that year, 30 days from the date its nitrogen hypoxia law took effect, to select the new method for their own executions.
No execution under this law was carried out until 1983. Holman Correctional Facility has a male death row that originally had a capacity of 20, but was expanded in the summer of 2000 with the addition of 200 single cells in the segregation unit. [15] The William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility has a male death row with a capacity of 24. [16]
Attorneys said that Grayson, and 180 other inmates on death row in Alabama at the time were given a choice in July 2018 to opt for nitrogen hypoxia as their preferred execution method.