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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.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Louisiana, [13] the U.S. Supreme Court has essentially eliminated the death penalty for any crime at the state level except murder. The 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia, requiring a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty, established a de facto moratorium on capital
Phillip Dean Hancock (February 15, 1964 – November 30, 2023) was an American convicted murderer who killed a total of three people between 1982 and 2001. In 1982, Hancock was charged with fatally shooting a drug trafficker, Charles Lester Warren, which he claimed was a killing done in self-defense, and he was subsequently given a four-year jail term for first-degree manslaughter. 19 years ...
The last time an inmate was put to death using any form of lethal gas was in 1999, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The Supreme Court in May last year rejected an earlier attempt ...
Moore’s case is a clear “outlier” and a “disproportionate” application of the death penalty, said South Carolina Supreme Court Justice Kaye Hearn, in a dissent to a 2022 ruling upholding ...
Prisoners sentenced to death by Alabama (1 C, 14 P) E. People executed by Alabama (6 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Capital punishment in Alabama"
Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) — A state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, is not required to compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner. Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990) — Mandatory appellate review is not required in death penalty cases.