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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.
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 ...
As his execution approaches, USA TODAY will look at the lives of his victims and detail how their families were affected by their murders. ... Pictured is Alabama death row inmate Alan Eugene ...
Alabama death row inmate James Barber was executed early Friday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay over fears that he could be subject to “substantial harm ...
A second death warrant was later finalized, ordering Smith to be put to death on January 25, 2024, by nitrogen hypoxia, which was a secondary execution method in Alabama and had never been administered since its implementation. On January 10, 2024, a federal judge ruled that Alabama could proceed with the execution of Smith using nitrogen gas.
Hays was executed in "Yellow Mama", Alabama's electric chair, on June 6, 1997. Among the witnesses to the execution was Michael Donald's brother. The Associated Press reported that Hays was Alabama's first execution since 1913 for a white-on-black crime. Hays is the only known KKK member to have been executed in the 20th century for the murder ...
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 ...
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 Since the veto had already been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and repealed ...