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The other four inmates were Freddie Eugene Owens, who murdered a convenience store clerk in South Carolina in 1997; Marcellus Williams, charged for the fatal stabbing of a former reporter in Missouri in 1998; Alan Eugene Miller, charged with the murder of three people in a 1999 spree shooting in Alabama; and Emmanuel Littlejohn, charged with ...
Louis Casiano. September 26, 2024 at 9:12 PM. An Alabama man convicted of killing three people in separate workplace shootings was put to death Thursday using nitrogen gas, the second time the ...
The other four inmates were Freddie Eugene Owens, convicted of the murder of a convenience store clerk in South Carolina in 1997; Marcellus Williams, convicted of the fatal stabbing of a former reporter in Missouri in 1998; Travis James Mullis, convicted of the murder of his son in Texas in 2008; and Alan Eugene Miller, convicted of shooting ...
Owens was 19 when he and an 18-year-old accomplice shot and killed Graves during a robbery in November 1997. While the accomplice pleaded guilty and was later jailed for voluntary manslaughter, Owens was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in 1999. The death sentence was overturned twice before re-sentencing trials restored the death ...
Legally, all inmates sentenced to death in Alabama were allowed until June 30 that year, 30 days from the date its nitrogen hypoxia law took effect, to select the new method for their own executions.
The Alabama prison system has been under heightened federal scrutiny for several years. A federal judge ruled in 2017 that mental health care of state inmates is “horrendously inadequate."
The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by means of nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method. [ 2 ] Smith was convicted of the March 18, 1988, murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama.
This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Carey Dale Grayson, one of the state's death row inmates who agreed in 2018 to have his execution carried out by nitrogen ...