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Leavell-Keaton's husband John DeBlase was also sentenced to death. She is the first woman sentenced to death in Mobile County. Christie Michelle Scott [9] In August 2008, a blaze broke out at the home of Christie Michelle Scott in Russellville, Alabama, killing her six-year-old son, Mason. Scott had purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy on ...
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.
Known as the "angel of the prisons", Tutwiler pushed for many reforms of the Alabama penal system. In a letter sent from Julia Tutwiler in Dothan, Alabama to Frank S. White in Birmingham, Alabama, Tutwiler pushed for key issues such as the end to convict leasing, the re-establishment of night school education, and the separation of minor offenders and hardened criminals. [3]
Alabama death row inmate Carey Dale Grayson on Thursday became the third inmate in the U.S. to be executed by nitrogen gas. Grayson, 50, was executed for the torture, bludgeoning and mutilation of ...
An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas, but not before a Tex-Mex-style last meal and a profane rant directed at the execution staff. ... Carey Dale Grayson had ...
After Yancy's death, Joiner said he and the church helped his family navigate the tragedy. "The shock of all of that and the violence of it was hard for them, especially to hear about and to ...
Alabama: Electrocution [11] 10 October 9, 2002 Aileen Carol Wuornos: 46 33–34 Florida Lethal injection [12] 11 September 14, 2005 Frances Elaine Newton: Black 40 21 Texas [13] 12 September 23, 2010 Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis: White 41 33 Virginia [14] 13 June 26, 2013 Kimberly LaGayle McCarthy: Black 52 36 Texas [15] 14 February 5, 2014 Suzanne ...
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]