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There are currently about 30 people on the state’s death row due to the practice. After Smith’s execution, the Alabama attorney general’s office said the total number of people waiting to be ...
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 ...
Dearman says his death will bring justice to the families of the five people he killed with an ax and a gun, including a pregnant woman. 'I am guilty:' Alabama inmate Derrick Dearman asks for ...
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]
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.
Its male death row originally had a capacity of 20. In the summer of 2000, capacity was increased to 200 single cells. [22] The William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility has a male death row with a capacity of 24. [23] Donaldson's death row houses prisoners who need to stay in the Birmingham judicial district. [24]
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 ...
Woods's execution made him the 67th death row prisoner to be executed in Alabama since 1978. [10] Martin Luther King III criticized the execution, writing, "the actions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Governor of the State of Alabama are reprehensible and have potentially contributed to an irreversible injustice". [6]