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List of people executed in Alabama. 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 75 people (74 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama. All executions between December 2002 and 2023 were ...
Lynda Cheryle Lyon was born February 8, 1948, in Orlando, Florida, to Francis Stephen "Frank" Lyon and Berylene Elisabeth Owen. Lynda and her sister Denyce (born 1952) lost their father when she was 10, when he died of heart failure. Lynda and her mother were never close, and Block claimed that her mother was both physically and mentally ...
Date. August 5, 1999. Country. United States. State (s) Alabama. Imprisoned at. Holman Correctional Facility. Alan Eugene Miller (born January 20, 1965) [1] is an American spree killer who was sentenced to death by the state of Alabama for the 1999 murders of three men in Pelham, Alabama.
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the ...
Alabama has scheduled a second execution with nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set a Sept ...
August 15, 1994. State (s) Alabama. The execution of Joe Nathan James Jr. (July 25, 1972 – July 28, 2022) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by means of lethal injection. James was sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of his ex-girlfriend, 26-year-old Faith Hall. His execution generated significant media attention and controversy due ...
Following a series of botched lethal injections that smirched the Alabama Department of Corrections' reputation, the state became the first in the U.S. to carry out an execution using nitrogen gas ...
He was the first person to be executed in the United States in this manner since 1966. The last person to be executed by electric chair without the choice of an alternative method was Lynda Lyon Block on May 10, 2002, in Alabama. [33] The most recent execution by electric chair was of Nicholas Todd Sutton on February 20, 2020, in Tennessee.