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Alabama Department of Corrections: March 12, 1974: Stabbed while taking a 24-year-old inmate to his cell at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. [116] Officer Michael Lee Farnsworth: Davenport, Iowa Police Department: December 5, 1971: Shot and killed while attempting to arrest a burglary suspect. [117] Officer Ronald W. Feldner
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.
Johnnie Johnson Jr. (born March 26, 1942, in Birmingham, Alabama) [1] is a former police officer. Johnson was the second black police officer on the Birmingham ...
Atmore was first recorded as a stop called Williams Station [8] on the Mobile and Great Northern Railroad.The town was originally to be named "Carney", in honor of a citizen who owned a sawmill in the town. Mr. Carney's brother had already established a town nearby with the same name, and Mr. Carney was allowed to name the town after his close friend C.P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent of the ...
William R. King, United States Senator from Alabama (1848–1852), 13th Vice President under President Franklin Pierce (1853–1853) (born in Sampson County, North Carolina) Woodie King Jr. , director, producer (Baldwin Springs)
The female soldiers identified for release Friday by Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, were all abducted from the Nahal Oz army base in southern Israel during the group's Oct. 7, 2023 ...
The Atmore Advance was founded in 1927 in Atmore, Alabama. [1] It has a circulation of approximately 2,000, and serves Atmore and surrounding Escambia County, Alabama. [2] It is published each Wednesday by Atmore Newspapers, Inc. [3] Through its early history the editorial board was supportive of the Democratic Party.
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 ...