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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 ...
Toforest Onesha Johnson (born February 8, 1973) [1] is an American man on death row for the 1995 execution-style murder of Jefferson County deputy sheriff William Hardy in Alabama. Johnson was one of four men accused of shooting Hardy to death on July 19, 1995, near a hotel where Hardy worked as a security officer while off duty.
Dearman, who has been on death row since 2018, penned letters to four state officials in April, including Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, informing them that he dropped his appeals and ...
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 ...
On July 1, 2022, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for twenty-five state death row inmates, one of whom was Johnson. He was scheduled to be executed on May 2, 2024. [ 11 ] His execution was later postponed due to a request by attorney general Gentner Drummond , who asked for sixty days between executions rather than ...
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]
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 ...
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.