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Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
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.
On July 20, 1997, during a fishing trip in Cane Creek, Alabama, 41-year-old Harold Alan Pugh (May 12, 1956 – July 20, 1997) and his 11-year-old son Joey Alan Pugh (June 22, 1986 – July 20, 1997) were attacked by a group of five men, who wanted to steal the Pughs' truck as their getaway vehicle in an upcoming bank robbery plan.
There are currently about 30 people on the state’s death row due to the practice. After Smith’s execution, the Alabama attorney general’s office said the total number of people waiting to be ...
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An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas, but not before a Tex-Mex-style last meal and a profane rant directed at the execution staff. ... Carey Dale Grayson had ...
From 1983 to 2024, Alabama has executed 78 people. [13] As of January 2025, Alabama had 158 inmates on death row, the 4th highest number in the US. [22] A governor has commuted only one death sentence since 1976: outgoing Governor Fob James commuted Judith Ann Neelley's death sentence to life in prison in January 1999. [23]
Alabama will forgo an autopsy on a Muslim death row inmate who sued the state, saying the procedure following his execution by lethal injection next week would violate his religious beliefs.