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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.
After Smith’s execution, the Alabama attorney general’s office said the total number of people waiting to be put to death in the state was 165. Smith wasn’t the first person Judge Tompkins ...
Daniel Lee Siebert – Alabama Institutional Serial #00Z475 [29] – Died from cancer while in custody in 2008, he was known for challenging protocol. [30] Thomas Warren Whisenhant – Serial killer who was convicted of murder in 1977 – Executed on May 27, 2010; at the time of his execution he was Alabama's longest serving death row inmate. [31]
It operates the nation's most crowded prison system. In 2015 it housed more than 24,000 inmates in a system designed for 13,318. [3] In 2015 it settled a class-action suit over physical and sexual violence against inmates at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka. [4] The department also spends the least of any state on a per-prisoner ...
Legally, all inmates sentenced to death in Alabama were allowed until June 30 that year, 30 days from the date its nitrogen hypoxia law took effect, to select the new method for their own executions.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
The law center reported 1,045 deaths in state prisons from April 2019 – when the DOJ released a report on prison conditions – through the end of last year, citing Alabama Department of ...
Was the sole inmate in Spandau Prison from 1966 until his death. The prison was demolished afterwards. Roberto Succo: 1988-05-23 Italy: Suicide by suffocating Serial killer Roy Buchanan: 1988-08-01 United States: Suicide by hanging American guitarist His death is still the subject of fierce debate. Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar: 1989 Saudi Arabia