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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 79 people (78 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 ...
Alabama put to death inmate Carey Dale Grayson for the 1994 murder of a hitchhiker, the third execution using nitrogen gas in the US.. Grayson, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. on Thursday at ...
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 ...
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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 Since the veto had already been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and repealed ...