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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.
Alabama death row inmate Carey Dale Grayson on Thursday became the third inmate in the U.S. to be executed by nitrogen gas. Grayson, 50, was executed for the torture, bludgeoning and mutilation of ...
On death row: 1 (2014) Total number executed: 24 (1700–1939) [20] Note: On May 30, 2019, the state Senate voted to override Governor Chris Sununu's veto on a bill that abolished the state's death penalty 16–8. Since the veto had already been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and repealed ...
The jury voted in favor of life imprisonment but the judge overruled the jury's verdict and sentenced Hays to death. [7] [11] He was incarcerated in the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, while on death row. [12] Hays was executed in "Yellow Mama", Alabama's electric chair, on June 6, 1997. Among the witnesses to the execution was ...
The unusual method of Smith’s execution sparked international backlash, including a protest from the Vatican. Grayson is one of about 30 inmates on Alabama’s death row who have selected to die ...
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 ...
Alabama passed legislation reinstating use of the death penalty on March 25, 1976, when Alabama's legislature passed, and Governor George Wallace signed, a new death penalty statute. No execution under this law was carried out until 1983. Holman Correctional Facility has a male death row that originally had a capacity of 20, but was expanded in ...
Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States that ...