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Capital punishment in Alabama is a legal penalty. Alabama has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States. In some years, its courts impose more death sentences than Texas , a state that has a population five times as large. [ 1 ]
Alabama finalized the first-ever execution protocols for the new method in August after its legislature in 2018 approved the alternative method to lethal injection, the Death Penalty Information ...
A bell used in Delaware to toll for death row inmates prior to the death penalty being abolished in that state is displayed as death penalty opponents gather on the steps of the state capitol ...
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.
Gavin's death penalty was nearly overturned in 2020 when a federal judge ruled that his counsel had been ineffective during his sentencing hearing by failing to address the mitigating ...
Unlike other states, Alabama has no provision to provide counsel to prisoners on Death Row. Prisoners' rights groups such as the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama, have worked to fill the need. They have gained the exoneration of numerous innocent men on death row and prevented the deaths of others whose cases were ...
A man convicted of a 2004 double killing has become the first person to be executed in Alabama since Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death by nitrogen gas in January.. Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was ...
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.