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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]
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.
Demetrius Terrence Frazier (born October 29, 1972) is an American convicted murderer and serial rapist who is currently on death row in Alabama for the 1991 rape and murder of 40-year-old Pauline Brown, after a robbery on November 27, 1991.
Williams was sentenced to life in prison and died in a state correctional facility in 2020. ... England describes Alabama’s death penalty as being seen as a fundamental part of the state’s ...
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.
The last time an inmate was put to death using any form of lethal gas was in 1999, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The Supreme Court in May last year rejected an earlier attempt ...
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 had been on parole in Illinois after serving 17 years of a 34-year prison sentence for murder, court records show. His second murder trial ended with a conviction and a 10-2 vote for him to ...