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Alabama executed a death row inmate Thursday with nitrogen gas, a controversial and highly secretive procedure that has only been done one other time. ... That list had grown to at least 21 by ...
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.
From 1983 to 2024, Alabama has executed 78 people. [13] As of January 2025, Alabama had 158 inmates on death row, the 4th highest number in the US. [22] 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. [23]
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 ...
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 ...
Woods's execution made him the 67th death row prisoner to be executed in Alabama since 1978. [10] Martin Luther King III criticized the execution, writing, "the actions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Governor of the State of Alabama are reprehensible and have potentially contributed to an irreversible injustice". [6]
The US Supreme Court has again denied a last-minute appeal by attorneys for Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith, who is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen gas – a wholly new ...
The execution of Alan Eugene Miller (January 20, 1965 – September 26, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia. It was the second execution in both the world and state to use this particular method, following the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in January 2024. [ 2 ]