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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 79 people (78 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.
County Location Opened Security class Capacity Notes Bibb Correctional Facility: ... North Alabama Work Release Center) Elba Work Release Center; Farquhar Cattle Ranch;
The facility was originally built to house 581 inmates. Holman held as many as one thousand prisoners. [4] It has 632 general population beds, 200 single cells, and 170 death row cells, for a capacity of 1002 maximum through minimum-custody inmates, including a large contingent of life without parole inmates.
Jail officials said Walton swallowed a drug-filled balloon before being incarcerated, and it burst six days later. The inmate's attorneys say it's more likely he obtained the drugs in jail. Walton tested positive for cocaine as recently as April 4. Jail or Agency: Cumberland County Jail; State: Maine; Date arrested or booked: 4/5/2016; Date of ...
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
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. The ...
It operates the nation's most crowded prison system. In 2015 it housed more than 24,000 inmates in a system designed for 13,318. [3] In 2015 it settled a class-action suit over physical and sexual violence against inmates at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka. [4] The department also spends the least of any state on a per-prisoner ...
The family of an Alabama inmate who was found dead in his bed filed a federal lawsuit alleging that his heart had been removed before the facility returned the body to them.