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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 ...
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 ...
Lynching. The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. [1][2] Several Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members beat and killed Michael Donald, a 19-year-old African-American, and hung his body from a tree. One perpetrator, Henry Hays, was executed by electric chair in 1997 ...
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. [2]
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 ...
That execution attempt in November of 2022 was called off after failed attempts to suitably insert the needle, sending Smith back to Alabama’s death row and leading the state to turn to a new ...
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 ...
Date. March 18, 1988. Imprisoned at. Holman Correctional Facility [1] The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by means of nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method. [2] Smith was convicted of the March 18, 1988, murder-for ...